Staff Applied Scientist

Adobe Systems
San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 164,000 - 313,300 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Collaboration","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Senior level role focused on building and improving high-visibility, foundational multimodal models. You will design end-to-end training pipelines for images and videos, lead pre-training areas, and collaborate across research, data, and infrastructure to push higher quality, better-aligned generative AI capabilities at scale.

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Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
5 months ago

Staff Applied Scientist

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Job Summary

Senior level role focused on building and improving high-visibility, foundational multimodal models. You will design end-to-end training pipelines for images and videos, lead pre-training areas, and collaborate across research, data, and infrastructure to push higher quality, better-aligned generative AI capabilities at scale.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement end-to-end training pipelines to build foundational model for both images and videos.
  • •Lead core development for specific pre-training areas (e.g., text to image and text to video), while aligning with broader team strategy.
  • •Develop scalable workflows for data curation, data quality improvements, and distributed training.
  • •Partner closely with research, data, evaluation, infrastructure, pre-training and post-training teams to push the editing quality for both images and videos.
  • •Closely collaborate with both pre-training and post-training team to understand the model’s capability and limitations to propose actionable solutions to improve quality.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 164,000 - 313,300 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field preferred.
  • •Proven track record in pre-training of large-scale multimodal models, specifically on cross modality for image and video data.
  • •Deep understanding of pre-training for multimodal generative models.
  • •Strong expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), including contrastive learning, multimodal alignment, and leveraging VLM-based encoders to improve semantic understanding in generative tasks.
  • •Deep understanding of modern diffusion-based architectures (DiT).
Experience:Multimodal AIGenerative AIVision-language models
Skills:CollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication
Tech Stack:DiffusionDiTVision-language modelsPre-trainingDistributed trainingData curationInference optimization

Company Brief

Adobe Systems
Provides creative, marketing, and document management software and cloud services, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and the Adobe Experience Cloud, serving creative professionals, enterprises, and governments worldwide.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1982
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