Staff Applied Scientist

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 10 days ago $216,400–$313,300 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a junior specialist in Adobe’s advanced AI team, you will design and implement end-to-end training pipelines for generative multimodal models, focusing on text to image and video pre-training. You’ll develop scalable workflows for data curation and distributed training while collaborating closely with research, evaluation, and infrastructure teams to enhance model quality and alignment. Your role involves improving instruction-following and visual fidelity through better data and training recipes, ensuring high-quality outputs in both images and videos. Ideal candidates have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience in machine learning, strong expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), contrastive learning, and diffusion-based architectures like DiT, along with proven track records in pre-training large-scale multimodal models and optimizing model inference for product environments.

Skills

Python TensorFlow PyTorch Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Git Scalability Diffusion-based architectures Vision-Language Models Contrastive learning Multimodal alignment

What you'll do

  • Design and implement end-to-end training pipelines for generative multimodal models.
  • Lead development of pre-training areas like text to image and text to video.
  • Develop scalable workflows for data curation and distributed training.
  • Improve instruction-following, visual fidelity, and edit consistency in models.
  • Collaborate with teams to understand model capabilities and propose improvements.

What we're looking for

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field preferred.
  • Proven experience in pre-training large-scale multimodal models for images and videos.
  • Expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) including contrastive learning and multimodal alignment.
  • Deep understanding of diffusion-based architectures like DiT.
  • Ability to design scalable data curation and distributed training pipelines.
  • Experience optimizing model inference and deployment for high-throughput environments.

Market check

Salary context

This $216,400–$313,300 range sits above 94% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$225,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$137,188–$201,900

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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