Applied Scientist

About the Role

This role targets an elevated profile to handle high-visibility projects and build foundational capabilities. You will be expected to materially improve the quality and cont rollability of Adobe's generative multimodal models. By strengthening Adobe's competitive position in generative AI quality and alignment, you will drive sustained improvements.

• Design and implement end-to-end training pipelines to build foundational models for both images and videos.
• Lead core development for specific pre-training areas (e.g., text to image and text to video), while aligning with broader team strategy.
• Develop scalable workflows for data curation, data quality improvements, and distributed training.
• Partner closely with research, data, evaluation, infrastructure, pre-training and post-training teams to push the editing quality for both images and videos.
• Closely collaborate with both pre-training and post-training teams to understand the model's capability and limitations to propose actionable solutions to improve quality.
• Improve instruction-following, visual fidelity, and edit consistency through higher quality data and better training recipes.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field preferred.
• Proven track record in pre-training of large-scale multimodal models, specifically on cross-modality for image and video data.
• Deep understanding of pre-training for multimodal generative models.
• Strong expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), including experience with contrastive learning, multimodal alignment, and leveraging VLM-based encoders to improve semantic understanding in generative tasks.
• Deep understanding of modern diffusion-based architectures (DiT).
• Ability to design and implement scalable pipelines for data curation, data quality control, and distributed training in collaboration with data and infrastructure teams.
• Experience optimizing model inference and deployment for high-throughput product environments, ensuring a balance between generative quality and computational efficiency.
• Since this is a junior role, strong publication experience and prior industry-level internship experience are expected.

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings include Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and Gen Studio. These tools enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We are on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. The next big idea could be yours.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $164,000 -- $313,300 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Specific salary range details will be shared by your recruiter during the hiring process. In California, the pay range is $216,400 - $313,300.

In addition, some roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

California: Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Colorado: If this role is open to hiring in Colorado, the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in…