Applied Scientist

Adobe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for applied research scientists and engineers to help us build the next generation of creative tools. The Data Research org within ASML is seeking an applied Scientist with experience in image/video understanding and generation.

We seek candidates with strong expertise in the field, as evidenced by peer‑reviewed academic publications, combined with hands‑on industrial research experience.

Qualifications

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
• Experience with large-scale data and distributed training.
• Publications in CV/AI/ML fields are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement scalable modeling algorithms for large-scale production data.
• Develop and fine-tune large-scale foundation models for video understanding and generation.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to deploy research ideas to production.
• Translate research ideas into production code in Python and ML toolkits.
• Stay updated on ML advances and translate them into practical solutions.

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Distributed training

Generative AI

Computer Vision

Job description

Adobe Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for applied research scientists and engineers to help us build the next generation of creative tools. The Data Research org within ASML is seeking an applied Scientist with experience in image/video understanding and generation. We seek candidates with strong expertise in the field, as evidenced by peer‑reviewed academic publications, combined with hands‑on industrial research experience.

What you will be responsible for

• Develop and implement scalable and efficient modeling algorithms that can work with large‑scale data in production systems
• Develop and fine‑tune large‑scale foundation models for video understanding and generation (e.g., ViTs, VLMs, multimodal encoders)
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to bring research ideas to production
• Convert research ideas/papers to code in Python and typical machine‑learning development toolkits
• Stay on top of the latest ML research (e.g., diffusion models, alignment methods, multimodal understanding) and translate advances into practical solutions

What you'll need to succeed

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals
• Experience with distributed training and its common strategies
• Experience in state‑of‑the‑art Generative AI technologies, such as VLMs and diffusion models
• Strong hands‑on experience working on image/video understanding, generation and editing
• Working with large‑scale datasets
• Good publication record in Computer Vision, AI/ML or related fields

Equal Employment Opportunity

Adobe is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity 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 protected characteristic.