2026 University Graduate Applied Researcher

San Jose, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 102400 - 196300

Posted on: 20 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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!

The Opportunity

Adobe Express empowers users to seamlessly construct striking designs whether they are novices or experienced engineers on a user-friendly platform improved by groundbreaking AI capabilities. The AI Foundations team sits at the core of this vision driving innovation to make Adobe Express smarter faster and more adaptive! By developing modular reusable AI systems and crafting a robust Horizon AI Stack this team will play a pivotal role in transforming creative workflows. Joining this team means crafting the future of creativity solving complex engineering challenges and delivering scalable AI solutions that redefine what is possible in design!

What Youll Do

Build innovative machine learning models that drive Agentic and other Generative AI scenarios for Adobe Express.

Develop and deploy advanced ML models in areas such as computer vision NLP and multimodal learning.

Contribute to foundational AI systems for intelligent assistance layout automation image generation and motion storytelling.

Design and build modular ML components that integrate into Adobes Horizon AI Stack and serve multiple creative workflows.

Drive the end-to-end ML lifecyclefrom experimentation to evaluation optimization and production deployment.

Collaborate closely with Adobe Research engineering and product teams to bring AI-powered features to life.

Design evaluation strategies using a combination of automated metrics LLM based judges and user feedback.

Basic Qualifications

Masters or PhD (preferred) in Computer Science Computer Engineering Data Science Machine Learning or a related field with equivalent experience.

Strong programming skills and proficiency in ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or JAX.

Experience with modern ML architectures including transformers / visual transformers diffusion models or GANs.

Experience with cloud platforms MLOps and deploying ML systems in production at scale.

Be able to quickly read understand and prototype relevant research papers.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Large Language Models and model adaptation techniques (Ex: PEFT SFT RL etc.)

Familiarity with agent-based systems intelligent assistants or planner-based AI.

Experience in creative imaging or multimedia domains.

Publications in renowned ML/CV/AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS CVPR ICML SIGGRAPH).

What You Need to Succeed

Passion for creativity and learning with a drive to improve solutions.

Be up to date with the latest and greatest in AI Research.

Comfortable working in a fast iterative and ambiguous environment.

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas and experiment results clearly.

Collaborative spirit with a focus on product impact AI / ML innovation and engineering excellence.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $$196300 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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Our CompanyChanging 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...