Staff Agentic ML Engineer Photoshop

Position Summary
We are building an advanced AI platform that powers next-generation creative workflows for flagship products like Photoshop and Lightroom. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (or Applied Scientist) you will combine deep technical expertise with architectural leadership to design and implement reasoning systems tool orchestration and multimodal integrations using cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLLMs).
The Opportunity

• (M)LLM post-training and evaluation including fine-tuning alignment and domain adaptation
• Agent system architecture design and implementation at scale
• Practical agent development using frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph MCP and A2A
• Image generation and editing with multimodal AI
• Building and owning rigorous evaluation frameworks for LLM and agent performance

What Youll Do

• Lead the development of next-generation AI agents that improve and extend Adobes product ecosystem
• Drive the architecture and implementation of robust agentic systems that combine reasoning retrieval tool use and multimodal capabilities
• Own end-to-end LLM fine-tuning pipelines data curation training RLHF/DPO alignment and evaluation
• Design and maintain comprehensive evaluation frameworks to measure agent quality reliability and safety
• Implement state-of-the-art LLM techniques for specialized creative applications
• Mentor and grow engineers and scientists across the team; establish technical best practices
• Move fast in an environment where priorities evolve and problems are sometimes loosely defined

What You Need to Succeed

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science Machine Learning Data Science or a related field
• 8 years of industry ML experience
• Demonstrated expertise in LLMs fine-tuning (SFT RLHF DPO PEFT/LoRA) and agentic system development in production
• Deep experience building evaluation frameworks for LLM and multi-agent systems (LLM-as-judge automated benchmarks red-teaming)
• Proficiency in PyTorch and agentic frameworks: LangChain LangGraph MCP Agent Development Kit (ADK)
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code Codex Cursor) while maintaining independent engineering judgment and critical ownership of technical decisions
• Strong foundation in data structures algorithms and software engineering principles
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; comfortable operating in fast-moving ambiguous environments
• Experience with multimodal models (vision-language image generation/editing) is a strong plus

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio Adobe Express Adobe Firefly Creative Cloud Adobe Experience Platform Adobe Experience Manager and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

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Expected Pay Range:

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 $$345650 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.

In California the pay range for this position is $238700 - $345650 In New York the pay range for this position is $238700 - $345650 In Massachusetts the pay range for this position is $207900 - $301100 In Washington the pay range for this position is $223500 - $323700

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