Director, ML Engineering
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As a Director of ML Engineering at Firefly Foundry, an enterprise managed-service offering for custom multimedia generative AI within Adobe, you will lead the engineering function responsible for productionizing and operating models at scale for hundreds of enterprise customers. Your daily responsibilities include setting technical strategies to ensure efficient model deployment, managing unit economics, defining tenancy architecture, and driving self-serve roadmaps. You will work closely with Applied Science, Firefly Foundry Studio, post-sales teams, and strategic partners to integrate top talent into the organization while maintaining a high engineering bar. The role requires expertise in generative models, ML systems, and GPU stacks, as well as strong leadership skills to manage an expanding team of engineers and managers.
Skills
What you'll do
- Define and implement technical strategy for productionizing custom generative models at enterprise scale.
- Own unit economics of Firefly Foundry inference, focusing on cost-to-serve and GPU utilization.
- Design tenancy and data-isolation architecture to protect enterprise IP under audit.
- Drive self-service roadmap to broaden Firefly Foundry’s reach beyond hands-on engagements.
- Represent Adobe engineering in high-level technical conversations with enterprise customers.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in applied machine learning and ML systems.
- At least 5 years of leadership in engineering organizations, including managing managers.
- Proven success in shipping generative AI products at enterprise scale.
- Strong technical understanding of modern generative models and their architecture.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale ML systems end-to-end.
- Ability to communicate effectively with executives, customers, and partners.
Employer
About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
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