Staff Applied Scientist, 3D Firefly Foundry

The Opportunity

Firefly Foundry is Adobes enterprise managed-service offering for custom multi-modal generative AI deep-tuned image video and 3D models built on each customers IP paired with creative production workflows and a media-intelligence layer and deployed across new and existing Adobe surfaces. The business has gained significant traction in Media & Entertainment marketing and consumer retail and is expanding rapidly into adjacent verticals.

We are especially looking for candidates experienced in large-scale industry-level pre-training and mid-training of multi-modality generative models with the focus on dynamic physically accurate 3D worlds. This role has a direct impact on the quality of Adobes generation models supporting next-generation creative workflows for millions of users.

As a Staff Applied Scientist at Adobe you will join a world-class team of applied researchers and engineers building the future of digital experiences innovating across the full training stack collaborating across data modeling and product and shipping your work to customers worldwide.

What Youll Do

• Build novel generative models and pipelines to support mesh generation physically based material generation and texture generation scene reconstruction lighting estimation animation and simulation for mediate & entertainment use cases as well as high-fidelity product imagery
• Build agentic workflows that use AI systems to create manipulate repair annotate evaluate and refine 3D and 4D content.
• Develop large-scale synthetic data pipelines that involve game and rendering engines digital environments 3D geometry physically-based materials lighting animation and simulation.
• Develop implement and rigorously evaluate advanced techniques for conditional generation and editing with emphasis on improving instruction compliance controllability and visual quality in pre-trained models.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with researchers engineers and product teams to translate multimodal innovations into scalable downstream applications within Adobe products.
• Develop and maintain robust evaluation pipelines to assess generative models across quality efficiency robustness and safety metrics.
• Translate research concepts and published work into production-ready implementations using Python and modern ML frameworks.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science Machine Learning Computer Graphics or a related field with 8 years industry experience.
• Extensive practical experience in large-scale generative AI training with a focus on image and video generation and editing.
• Experience with diffusion models transformers or other state-of-the-art generative architectures.
• Strong working knowledge of 3D content systems including meshes materials textures scene structure cameras lighting coordinate systems skeletal animation and motion workflows.
• Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python PyTorch and ML infrastructure tools.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with product teams on technology transfers.
• Strong publication record in Computer Science AI/ML or related fields.

What Youll Bring

• Experience on large-scale generative model training
• Experience on synthetic data generation
• Experience of working with large-scale datasets
• Experience of working with product teams on technology transfers

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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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