Machine Learning Engineer, Express AI Foundations

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 25 days ago $161,700–$234,150 / year

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TL;DR

As a senior software engineer on the AI Foundations team at Adobe, you will contribute to developing and scaling the core AI platform that powers creative tools in Adobe Express. Your daily tasks include building backend services and workflows for Agentic AI, Create AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI, enhancing data pipelines for model training and deployment, and supporting runtime systems with a focus on reliability and performance. You will work closely with engineers, researchers, and product teams to deliver robust AI capabilities while leveraging Python, Java, C++, or Go, along with cloud environments and distributed data frameworks like Kafka, Spark, or Flink. This role offers the chance to tackle complex challenges in large-scale platform development for modern AI products at Adobe.

Skills

Python Java C++ Go Kafka Spark Flink MLOps LLMs Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS Azure Google Cloud PostgreSQL Redis Kubernetes Terraform

What you'll do

Develop core platform components supporting AI experiences in Adobe Express.
Build and enhance backend services for connecting models, APIs, data systems, and product features.
Create and refine data and inference pipelines for training, evaluation, fine-tuning, and deploying ML models.
Support runtime systems ensuring reliability, observability, and performance for AI platforms.
Improve storage, caching, and data-access patterns to enhance efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

What we're looking for

3+ years of software engineering experience in backend infrastructure or related areas.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalable system design, and cloud environments.
Experience building APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems, and ML infrastructure.
Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Go for developing production-ready AI capabilities.
Familiarity with model inference, orchestration, evaluation workflows, and MLOps concepts.

Market check

Salary context

This $161,700–$234,150 range sits above 42% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$165,500–$240,700

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$162,000–$246,150

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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