Applied Scientist

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Adobe Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for applied research scientists and engineers to help build the next generation of creative tools. The Data Research organization within ASML is seeking an applied Scientist with experience in image/video understanding and generation. We are looking for candidates with strong expertise in the field, as evidenced by peer-reviewed academic publications, combined with hands-on industrial research experience. As an Applied Scientist at ASML, you will join an outstanding team of applied researchers and engineers building the future of digital experiences. You will have the opportunity to develop novel ideas to advance the Creativity world through features in Adobe's products and reach millions of people worldwide!

Requirements

Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields
Excellent communication skills
Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch
Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals
Experience with distributed training and its common strategies
Experience in state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies, such as VLMs and diffusion models
Strong hands-on experience working on image/video understanding, generation and editing
Working with large-scale datasets
Good publication record in Computer Vision, AI/ML or related fields

Responsibilities

Develop and implement scalable and efficient modeling algorithms that can work with large-scale data in production systems
Develop and fine-tune (e.g., ViTs, VLMs, multimodal encoders) large-scale foundation models for video understanding and generation
Collaborate with extraordinary researchers and engineers to bring research ideas to production
Convert a research idea/paper to code in Python and typical machine learning development toolkits
Stay on top of the latest ML research (e.g., diffusion models, alignment methods, multimodal understanding) and translate advances into practical solutions