This role pays more than
89%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,200–$247,675
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$265k
versus about
$208k
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
218 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$187,100–$270,950
across 216 roles with salary data.
Staff Applied Scientist, 3D - Firefly Foundry joins the Firefly Foundry team to develop multi-modal generative AI models for media and entertainment applications. The role involves building novel pipelines for mesh generation, texture creation, scene reconstruction, lighting estimation, and animation. You will also build agentic workflows to manipulate 3D content and develop large-scale synthetic data pipelines using game engines and 3D geometry. Key responsibilities include implementing advanced techniques for conditional generation and maintaining robust evaluation pipelines for quality and safety. The position requires expertise in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tools, alongside deep knowledge of diffusion models, transformers, and 3D content systems like skeletal animation and motion workflows. This role focuses on solving technical challenges in creating physically accurate 3D worlds and high-fidelity product imagery through large-scale pre-training and mid-training of generative models.
What does a Applied Scientist earn?
Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.
Python
C++
Unreal Engine
Unity
Blender
CARLA
Isaac Sim
Omniverse
LLM
Diffusion Models
Multimodal Learning
Computer Graphics
Procedural Generation
Ray Tracing
Shader Development
Data Pipelines
Simulation
Agentic Systems