Senior Research Engineer (AI/ML) Full-time

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

In the Digital Video & Audio Machine Learning Team we build, maintain and deploy pioneering AI and ML features within our video and audio products. Adobe Sensei features like Scene Edit Detection, Auto Reframe, Text-Based Editing or Media Intelligence originated in this group.

With an increased focus on AI & ML throughout our apps, we are looking for skilled Computer Scientists to challenge the state of the art in AI assisted video editing and redefine the frontier of creative arts.
What you’ll Do

• Work closely with Research and Engineering, writing the code that drives our powerful Machine Learning and AI Media Compute engine to deliver ground breaking features that are used by millions of video editors across the world.
• Work with and improve our latest machine learning models to develop innovative workflows for media and entertainment production, ranging from social media to high-profile Hollywood projects.
• Work on the AI compute technologies with our Hardware partners around the globe to ensure our ML models run as fast and accurate as possible on all our supported platforms.

What you need to succeed

• 7+ years of relevant practical experience.
• Ability to read and understand academic papers and literature.
• Wide reaching understanding of the current research landscape in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills across research, engineering and product design subject areas.
• Experience with training and architecting Machine Learning architectures in Pytorch.
• Proficiency in writing robust and unit-tested code in C++ 17 and Python 3.11.
• Strong grasp of asynchronous and multi-threaded programming models and paradigms.
• If you also have experience with DirectX, Metal, ML Model Compression, Zero-Copy Memory Sharing and writing GPU Code – perfect. But if not, Adobe is an excellent place to learn!
• Candidates with an MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience are encouraged to apply.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.