Lead AI​/ML Engineer, Express AI Foundations

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Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Adobe Express enables all users, whether individuals or large organizations, to effortlessly produce impressive content. The AI Foundations team constructs a flexible, scalable AI framework that drives creativity at scale in design, imaging, motion, and personalization.

• Lead development and contribute to building the complete AI stack for Adobe Express — covering Agentic AI, Construct AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI.
• Develop and operationalize end-to-end systems — integrating microservices, data pipelines, LLM orchestration layers, in-house and third-party models, databases, caches, session analytics, and evaluation systems into a cohesive architecture.
• Develop large-scale data and inference infrastructure to support model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment — employing Spark, Kafka, Flink, and other distributed frameworks.
• Develop high-performance runtime services for inference and orchestration with strong observability, fault tolerance, and latency guarantees.
• Apply strong caching and storage tactics to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness for various AI workloads.
• Lead development of experimentation and evaluation systems, encompassing session-level analytics, feedback loops, and quality metrics that drive continuous improvement.
• Work closely with applied research, product, and platform teams to implement LLMs and other AI models into customer-facing services.
• Mentor junior engineers and scale the team to drive collectively the charter of Agentic AI for Adobe Express.

• 8+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems AI infrastructure, or ML platform engineering.
• Proven expertise in building and scaling data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.).
• Strong background in API development, caching strategies, database development, and performance optimization for large-scale serving systems.
• Hands‑on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, model routing, and multi‑model inference.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Go, with an emphasis on distributed systems, cloud‑native deployment, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI patterns — reasoning loops, memory persistence, task decomposition, and multi‑agent coordination.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross‑functional technical direction.

• Bachelor’s or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• Experience building large‑scale high‑throughput / low‑latency applications backed by ML models to build workflows.
• Exposure to Generative AI (LLMs, diffusion, or multimodal architectures).
• Experience with MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and model registries.

At Adobe, we’re crafting the future of creativity through intelligence. The AI Foundations team combines the agility of a startup with the scale and mission of Adobe — constructing the AI stack for Adobe Express, spanning Agentic, Design, Imaging, Motion, and Personalization AI. Join us to develop the infrastructure that brings adaptive, autonomous, and human‑centered AI to millions of creators worldwide!

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $172,500 — $306,625 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. In California, the pay range for this position is $211,800 — $306,625.

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