Research Scientist

Adobe is looking for a highly motivated and versatile Research Scientist to join its Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) Laboratory. This lab operates within the Customer Experience Orchestration (CXO) business unit. The position offers an outstanding chance to participate in world-class research that will define future digital experiences.

As part of our ambitious team, you will work on innovative research problems and implement solutions to revolutionize how businesses operate. You will have the chance to turn your research ideas into successful products and disseminate them at top conferences and journals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and guide research projects in fields like Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, and Machine Learning.
• Work together with product teams to transform research developments into meaningful products.
• Build challenging evaluations related to creative intelligence and marketing performance.
• Develop scalable synthetic data generation and evaluation techniques.
• Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from diverse sources.
• Train models and run experiments to study data and model quality.
• Continuously improve research experiments and clearly share insights with the team.
• Integrate core machine learning models into the Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Experience Platform.
• Collaborate with product, development, and engineering teams to rapidly prototype and transition conceptual prototypes from research to production.

Requirements

• PhD degree and 3 years of experience, or six years of experience, in applied research in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or other relevant technical fields.
• Hands-on experience and a track record of deploying solutions in production environments.
• Multiple publications in leading conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, PNAS, Nature, Science, ACL, EMNLP, CHI, WWW, KDD, CVPR, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following fields: Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Behavioral Sciences, Agentic Workflows, Social Network Analysis, Causal Inference, Recommendation Systems, Multimodal Content Understanding.

You Will Thrive In This Role If You

• Experience in deriving concrete conclusions and actionable insights from large datasets.
• Ability to take research risks and solve hard problems independently.
• Are a great teammate who is willing to take on a variety of tasks to contribute to the success of the team.
• Have a proven track record and an impulse for empirical research, answering complex questions with data.
• Are capable of leading ambitious projects and possess clear communication skills.
• Have experience designing high-quality research experiments and assessments with quick cycles.
• Have experience working in complex technical environments, improving research velocity.
• Possess a flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

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