Sr Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

Adobe

Actively hiring
San Jose Posted 61 days ago $242,600$351,225 / year

At a glance

AI generated

TL;DR

As a Manager for Applied Research at Adobe Firefly Foundry, you will lead and grow a distributed team focused on training data for generative AI, defining strategies for acquiring, processing, curating, annotating, and ensuring the quality of large-scale datasets. You will build scalable data pipelines, collaborate with researchers and engineers to align on data needs, champion ethical AI practices, and integrate tools to enhance infrastructure and workflows. With a deep understanding of ML data lifecycles and expertise in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Databricks, and Snowflake, you will provide technical leadership while fostering innovation and cross-functional collaboration within the enterprise-scale generative AI platform.

Skills

AWS Azure GCP Spark Databricks Snowflake Python SQL Terraform CI/CD MLOps DVC PostgreSQL Kubernetes Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a distributed team focused on training data for Generative AI.
  • Define and execute strategy for acquiring, processing, curating, annotating, versioning large-scale datasets.
  • Build scalable, efficient data pipelines across the entire training data lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with researchers to align on data needs for new generative models.
  • Champion ethical AI practices, ensuring data diversity and bias mitigation.
  • Evaluate and integrate tools to enhance infrastructure and workflows for data ops.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s/Ph.D. in CS, Data Science, AI/ML or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of leadership in data infrastructure and ML data operations.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale ETL pipelines and data warehousing.
  • Proficiency with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data platforms.
  • Strong understanding of data quality, governance, versioning, and annotation.
  • Expertise in data privacy, security, and ethical AI principles.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $215k
This role $297k
$147k most similar roles pay here $373k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $180,501–$249,762 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $297k versus about $215k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 310 open roles on FindRole.

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