Applied Science Manager — Generative AI Training Data

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry team seeks an experienced Applied Science Manager to lead the training data ecosystem powering generative AI for imaging and video. You will build scalable data pipelines, curate large datasets, and define data strategies that accelerate creative tools used by millions.

This role leads a distributed team, partners with researchers, ML engineers, and product managers, and champions data diversity, privacy, and ethical AI while shaping data-centric practices across products.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• Deep understanding of ML data lifecycles, particularly for generative models.
• Experience with synthetic data creation and curation.
• Strong grasp of data privacy, security, and ethical AI principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a distributed team focused on training data for generative AI.
• Define and execute the strategy for acquiring, processing, curating, annotating, versioning, and ensuring the quality of large-scale datasets for Custom Foundation Models.
• Build and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines across the training data lifecycle.
• Collaborate with researchers, ML engineers, and product managers to align on data needs for foundation models.
• Champion data diversity, bias mitigation, and ethical AI practices.
• Evaluate and integrate tools and methodologies that enhance infrastructure and workflows.
• Influence model development through insights on data quality and availability.
• Provide technical leadership and foster a culture of innovation.
• Partner across teams to align data priorities and share best practices.

Skills

Leadership

ML data lifecycles

Generative AI data

Large-scale datasets

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field

Job description

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry team seeks an experienced Applied Science Manager to lead the training data ecosystem powering generative AI for imaging and video. You will build scalable data pipelines, curate large datasets, and define data strategies that accelerate creative tools used by millions.

This role leads a distributed team, partners with researchers, ML engineers, and product managers, and champions data diversity, privacy, and ethical AI while shaping data-centric practices across products.