Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

Our Company

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The Opportunity

AdobeFireflyFoundry is a managed generative-AI service purpose-built for enterprises that need to scale content creation without compromising brand safety or workflow efficiency. By letting customers train private Firefly models on their own intellectual propertyunder strict data isolation and copyright indemnificationand deploy those models directly into Adobe Creative Cloud Experience Cloud and proprietary platforms via FireflyServices APIs Foundry closes the gap left by consumergrade GenAI tools and empowers brands to deliver tentimes the creative output at professional quality.

As a Manager for Applied Research at Adobe you will be the technical and strategic steward of this platform translating stateoftheart research into secure productionready capabilities championing them in customer and industry settings and building the worldclass team that will turn vision into reality.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a distributed team focused on training data for Generative AI.
• Define and execute strategy for acquiring processing curating annotating versioning and ensuring quality of large-scale datasets for Adobe Firefly.
• Build and maintain scalable efficient data pipelines across the training data lifecycle.
• Collaborate with researchers ML engineers and PMs to align on data needs for new models.
• Champion data diversity bias mitigation and ethical AI practices.
• Evaluate and integrate tools and methodologies to enhance infrastructure and workflows.
• Influence model development through insights on data quality and availability.
• Provide technical leadership and foster a culture of innovation.
• Partner across teams to align data priorities and share best practices.

Qualifications:

• Masters/Ph.D. in CS Data Science Engineering AI/ML or related fieldor equivalent experience.
• 5 years in engineering leadership managing data infrastructure or ML data ops teams.
• Deep understanding of ML data lifecycles especially for generative models (GANs diffusion).
• 7 years building and optimizing large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehousing.
• Expertise in data quality governance versioning and annotation platforms.
• Proficiency with cloud data tech (AWS Azure GCP Spark Databricks Snowflake).
• Strong grasp of data privacy security and ethical AI principles.
• Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with large-scale image/video datasets.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with MLOps tools (e.g. DVC) annotation platforms and compliance standards.
• Experience in computer vision multimedia or creative content data ecosystems.
• Contributions to open-source tools publications or patents in data management.
• Proven success supporting generative model training with robust data solutions.

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