Information Retrieval Engineer

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 73 days ago $161,700–$234,150 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Information Retrieval Engineer at Adobe, you will lead the development of robust retrieval systems that enhance large language models with context-aware information. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing scalable RAG pipelines using vector databases like FAISS and Weaviate, building ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data, and optimizing relevance scoring algorithms to improve precision and recall. You will also create knowledge graphs to support disambiguation and manage data freshness, while collaborating with prompt engineers to align retrieval outputs with model behavior. The role requires strong Python skills, experience with retrieval libraries such as Haystack and LangChain, and familiarity with cloud platforms like Airflow and Docker. Ideal candidates have a background in information retrieval or search engineering and are passionate about enhancing AI systems for enterprise applications.

Skills

Python Haystack LangChain Elasticsearch Milvus FAISS Weaviate Pinecone Qdrant OpenAI Cohere HuggingFace Neo4j TigerGraph Airflow dbt Docker CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Design and deploy scalable retrieval pipelines using vector databases.
  • Implement semantic search infrastructure and hybrid retrieval systems.
  • Build ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Fine-tune relevance scoring and reranking algorithms to improve precision/recall.
  • Create and maintain knowledge graphs for context linking and disambiguation.
  • Track key retrieval metrics and implement strategies to optimize system responsiveness.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years experience in data engineering, ML infrastructure, or information retrieval
  • Experience building and deploying RAG pipelines or semantic search systems
  • Strong Python skills with familiarity in retrieval libraries like Haystack and LangChain
  • Proficiency with embedding models, vector similarity search, and document indexing
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and MLOps tooling such as Airflow and Docker

Market check

Salary context

This $161,700–$234,150 range sits above 62% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$132,300–$218,238

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$135,850–$224,325

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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