Senior Staff Applied Scientist - AI/ML
Adobe · San Jose, CA · Engineering and Product
senior
machine learning
Applied Scientist
tech_leadership
· Posted Mar 16, 2026
$182,900 – $352,350
USD per year
Skills
About this role
Adobe is hiring a senior-level Applied Scientist in the machine learning function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Express, PyTorch, LLMs, Deep Learning. Compensation is listed at $182,900–$352,350 per year.
- Role
- Applied Scientist
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Department
- Engineering and Product
- Posted
- Mar 16, 2026
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Job description
from Adobe careersThe opportunity
Adobe is seeking Senior Staff Applied Scientists who excel at turning research breakthroughs into innovative product features. In this role, you will focus on scouting, adapting, and improvising the latest research to advance Adobe’s AI capabilities in the field of Natural Language, Image/Video generation, editing, and multimodal AI that impact millions of users.
We welcome outstanding candidates in all related technical fields, such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing, Large language models.
Familiarity with inference optimization, performance trade-offs, and scalable integration will be an asset. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated by moving fast with research and innovation and wants their ideas to shape the future of Adobe products.
Adobe is seeking Senior Staff Applied Scientists who excel at turning research breakthroughs into innovative product features. In this role, you will focus on scouting, adapting, and improvising the latest research to advance Adobe’s AI capabilities in the field of Natural Language, Image/Video generation, editing, and multimodal AI that impact millions of users.
We welcome outstanding candidates in all related technical fields, such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing, Large language models.
Familiarity with inference optimization, performance trade-offs, and scalable integration will be an asset. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated by moving fast with research and innovation and wants their ideas to shape the future of Adobe products.
What you will do
- Transform innovative research concepts into practical applications within the realm of Generative AI, LLMs, Reinforcement learning, Reasoning, Evaluations.
- Prototype and experiment rapidly, demonstrating feasibility and business impact.
- Push beyond academic results to develop and deploy practical, differentiated innovations for Adobe’s products.
- Collaborate with world-class researchers and ML engineers to bring research ideas to production.
- Publish and present your work in world-class scientific venues in AI/ML fields.
- Develop and enhance GPU-accelerated pipelines for (customized) model training and inference, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability.
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