Staff Engineer 5, Adobe GenStudio

Our Company

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Were on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Staff Engineer to join the GenStudio Engineering team. This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about building scalable high-impact software solutions. You will drive architectural decisions mentor engineers and influence the technical direction of GenStudio.

What Youll Do

• Design build test and maintain AI/ML-based systems and applications that serve as the backbone of scalable production-ready technology stacks.

• Frame product features as ML tasks (e.g. classification recommendation context engineering).

• Analyze trade-offs across cost latency and accuracy while ensuring compliance with UX privacy legal and security constraints.

• Assess data distribution (variance sampling drift) and manage data labeling workflows involving LLMs SMEs or user-generated activity.

• Organize datasets for training validation and testing and engineer high-quality features using normalization smoothing and weighting techniques.

• Implement and adapt techniques from academic research and industry papers; evaluate algorithmic trade-offs considering data requirements latency and runtime.

• Handle cold-start scenarios and mitigate overfitting/underfitting challenges.

• Define offline benchmarks and metrics; design and analyze A/B tests to validate online performance.

• Architect scalable ML systems (e.g. multi-agent recommender active learning multi-stage model training enterprise search) for both offline and online workflows.

• Optimize model development and deployment in GPU/TPU environments using PyTorch.

• Work cross-functionally with data research and product teams to translate models into production-ready services.

What Youll Need to Succeed

• 12 years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record of technical leadership.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Proven expertise in Machine Learning and Deep Learning including model design optimization and fine-tuning.

• Strong understanding of transfer learning principles and their application in production settings.

• Proficiency in Python (especially for data workflows) and experience with ML/DL frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow/Keras CUDA Hugging Face and JAX.

• Experience designing and deploying scalable AI/ML systems optimized for GPU/TPU environments.

• Solid grasp of data engineering conceptsincluding dataset management feature engineering and handling data drift.

• Ability to balance theoretical ML knowledge with practical high-performance implementation.

• Strong understanding of how to transform models into reliable production-grade services.

Preferred Attributes

• Recognized as a thought leader within and beyond the organization.

• Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.

• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and evangelize new technologies.

• Experience with building GenAI-first applications.

• Contributions to industry forums conferences or open-source communities.

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