Principal Machine Learning Services Engineer, Firefly Enterprise

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 358,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Principal ML Services Engineer to advance their Generative AI initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will develop and optimize backend services for innovative applications, ensuring a scalable and reliable cloud service. Your expertise in GPU-intensive ML workloads and cloud architecture will be crucial in delivering exceptional experiences for enterprise customers. Join a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of digital creativity and technology, where your contributions will directly impact the future of AI-driven solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of transformative technology.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building and optimizing GPU intensive ML workloads.
• Strong background in architecting cloud services for large scale use.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to backend services for Firefly powering Generative AI features.
• Design GPU optimized model pipelines for custom Generative AI solutions.

Skills

Python

ML

PyTorch

AIT

AOT

CUDA

GPU drivers

Kubernetes

AWS

Java

Job description

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

Firefly is the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products that offers a new way to conceptualize, build, and scale content. It’s a natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years.

We have a huge opportunity to provide scalable GenAI backed solutions to allow our Enterprise customers to power their experiences! We are hiring a Principal ML Services Engineer to help achieve our Enterprise goals!

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the backend services for Firefly that power the Generative AI features on Firefly website, Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, Stock and other applications/surfaces for Enterprise customers.
• Design and Develop GPU optimized, efficient model pipelines (training and inference) for custom Generative AI solutions like “Train Your Own Model” using customer data.
• Define the architecture to support small and large premium customers for training and inference without compromising SLAs.
• Ensure a scalable, reliable cloud service with observability, logging and tracing to enable quick detection, understanding and resolution of run-time issues.
• Contribute to Project Colligo, the AI superhighway for inference and training that will manage and serve a collection of ML models in a highly scalable and resilient system.
• Develop critical aspects of the business logic in the Firefly services to ensure metering of usage, entitlement checks, quota limits and upsell workflows.

What You Need to Succeed

• Consistent track record building, optimizing and operating GPU intensive ML workloads in production environments.
• Several years' experience architecting cloud services and infrastructure for large scale use (5B+ requests per month).
• Deep understanding of model serving, orchestration, scaling, GPU resource management.
• Extensive, high level software engineering experience.
• Technology Skills: Python, ML, PyTorch, AIT, AOT, CUDA, GPU drivers, Kubernetes, AWS.
• Nice to have, Java.

#FireflyGenAI

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $189,400 -- $357,900 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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