Research Scientist - (applied research)

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Adobe is seeking a highly motivated Computer Vision Research Scientist to join the Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) Lab within the Customer Experience Orchestration (CXO) organization.This role provides an outstanding opportunity to engage in world-class research that will craft the future of digital experiences. As a part of our ambitious team, you will work on innovative research problems and implement solutions to revolutionize how businesses operate. As part of the research team, you will get an opportunity to turn your research ideas into successful products and at the same time, disseminate them at top conferences and journals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead research initiatives in areas such as Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
• Collaborate with product teams to turn research advances into impactful products.
• Design 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.
• Iteratively refine research experiments and clearly communicate insights to the team.
• Integrate core machine learning models into the Adobe Experience Manager and other products.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to rapidly prototype and transition conceptual prototypes from research to production.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computer Vision, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Content Understanding, Agentic Workflows.
• Multiple publications in top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, WWW, PNAS, Nature, Science, or related top conferences/journals.
• Hands-on experience and a track record of deploying solutions in production environments.
• Ability to derive actionable insights from large-scale visual and multimodal datasets.
• Ability to take research risks and solve hard problems independently.
• PhD degree or equivalent experience in industrial research in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or other relevant technical fields.

You Will Thrive In This Role If You:

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 familiarity with crafting quality research experiments and evaluations with rapid iterations. Have experience working in complex technical environments, improving research velocity. Possess a flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision. Have familiarity with relational databases and SQL. Bonus: Experience with large-scale data systems such as Beam or Spark.

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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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