Senior ML Platform Engineer – Data and Systems 5.5

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

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!

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team of passionate ML and software engineers. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on enabling othersbuilding the infrastructure tools and data pipelines that empower ML teams to deliver customer-facing features powered by Document Cloud data.

Youll work on high-impact projects that combine system design ML model evaluation and data pipeline development while ensuring our AI systems are ethical compliant and scalable.

If youre excited about shipping innovative ML capabilities collaborating across teams and shaping the future of AI platforms wed love to hear from you.

What Youll Do

• Build and maintain scalable AI data pipelines using Databricks Spark and cloud-native tools (e.g. Azure AWS).
• Design and implement backend services and platform components that power ML and Generative AI features across products.
• Develop and evaluate ML models using classical and deep learning techniques including GenAI LLMs SLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Apply techniques such as model distillation and fine-tuning to optimize performance and efficiency of AI components.
• Leverage synthetic data generation and differential privacy to enhance our products using customer interactions while preserving Adobes commitment to ethical AI.
• Collaborate with product legal and policy teams to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Create reusable templates frameworks and documentation to accelerate ML development across teams.
• Monitor and improve the efficiency accuracy and fairness of AI workflows in production.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and inclusion.

What You Need to Succeed

• Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in ML engineering or platform roles including work with existing scalable platforms (DataBricks Snowflake eg)
• Strong software engineering skills including CI/CD version control and code reviews.
• Expert level proficiency in Python and ML frameworks.
• Experience deploying ML models in production environments and managing MLOps workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and Databricks.
• Strong understanding of data structures algorithms and system design.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mentality.

Bonus Points

• Experience with document intelligence OCR or NLP on unstructured data.
• Knowledge of vector databases and modern NLP techniques.
• Contributions to internal wikis open-source ML tools or platform documentation.

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