Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe seeks a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer to own core parts of the AI compute and inference platform. You will optimize GPU utilization, move models to production, and serve inference with low latency at global scale.

You will set technical direction, shape architecture for hundreds of engineers, and mentor teams across the platform organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating large-scale platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and multi-node clusters.
• Strong programming ability in Python and at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, or Java).
• Track record designing systems that other engineers build on and taking them to production at scale.
• Bias for measurable outcomes (latency, throughput, utilization, reliability) and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmap for major components of the ML compute and inference platform.
• Design and operate distributed systems for large-scale training and low-latency inference.
• Drive multi-tenancy, elasticity, and cost/utilization efficiency across a shared GPU fleet.
• Build paths to move models from experiment to production without re-implementation.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, and performance.
• Partner with ML researchers and product teams to turn workloads into platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the platform organization.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Python

Go

C++

Rust

Java

Performance tuning

Architectural design

Tools

Container orchestration

Multi-node clusters

Job description

The Opportunity Adobe's AI and generative AI products, from Firefly to the intelligence built into Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud, run on a shared compute and inference platform. It's the infrastructure every internal ML team uses to train models and serve them to production at global scale. As a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you'll own core parts of that platform. That means extracting maximum utilization from large GPU fleets, moving models from experiment to production without a rewrite, and serving inference at low latency and high throughput under real traffic. You set technical direction rather than take tickets, and the architecture you define shapes how hundreds of engineers across Adobe train and ship AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap for major components of the ML compute and inference platform, such as training orchestration, GPU scheduling and utilization, model serving, or the developer-facing surfaces ML teams build on.
• Design and operate distributed systems that run large-scale training and low-latency, high-throughput inference reliably across thousands of accelerators.
• Drive multi-tenancy, elasticity, and cost/utilization efficiency across a shared GPU fleet serving many teams with competing demands.
• Build the paths that move a model from experiment to production without re-implementation, from packaging and registry through deployment and safe rollout.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, and performance, and raise the bar for how the platform is built and operated.
• Partner with ML researchers and product teams to turn emerging workloads into first-class platform capabilities, and inform capacity and hardware strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the platform organization.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating large-scale platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems in production, with direct ownership of performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and operating large multi-node and multi-region clusters.
• Strong programming ability in Python and at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, or Java).
• A track record of designing systems that other engineers build on, making deliberate architectural tradeoffs and taking them from design to production at scale.
• A bias for measurable outcomes (latency, throughput, utilization, reliability) and the collaboration skills to drive them across teams and partners.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GPU or accelerator scheduling, performance tuning, or fleet management.
• Familiarity with ML framework internals or distributed training (PyTorch, FSDP, DeepSpeed) or modern inference stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, Ray Serve).
• Experience operating ML or data infrastructure at the scale of a major ML-driven product organization.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio 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’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Expected Pay Range

The U.S. pay range for this positionis $172,500 - $306,625 annually.

Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $211,800 - $306,625

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