This role pays more than
96%
of similar roles. Most pay
$173,200–$230,700
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$328k
versus about
$202k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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
218 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$187,100–$270,950
across 216 roles with salary data.
Principal Scientist - Data Pipeline Engineer
As a Principal Scientist - Data Pipeline Engineer, you will join the team responsible for architecting and scaling multimodal data processing pipelines and infrastructure for Adobe Firefly’s foundation models. You will build distributed, GPU-accelerated systems to transform billions of raw image, video, and audio assets into training-ready data. Your daily work involves optimizing inference throughput, identifying bottlenecks in ingestion and delivery, and designing scalable storage and indexing systems. The role requires expertise in Python and a systems-level language like C++, Rust, Go, or Java, alongside experience with frameworks such as Ray or Spark. You will also focus on data curation for training generative models and optimizing GPU inference pipelines for VLMs and LLMs. This position solves the critical challenge of ensuring high-quality, high-volume data flows to improve model learning outcomes in a multimodal environment.
AWS
GraphRAG
Knowledge Graphs
Data Architecture
Data Engineering
Feature Stores
Metadata Management
SDTM
ADaM
MedDRA
FHIR
OMOP
DICOM
Data Governance
FAIR Data Principles
Distributed Data Processing