Applied Scientist at Adobe

Department: Engineering and Product

Compensation

$142,700 – $270,950/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: San Jose, California
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Sep 10, 2026

Description

Adobe is hiring Applied Scientists at early-career and senior levels to develop AI innovations from research through product validation and technology transfer. The role focuses on multimodal architectures for image and video editing, including research, data curation, model training and adaptation, evaluation, failure analysis, and technical strategy. Candidates need a master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience, hands-on transformer, diffusion, or multimodal architecture development, strong Python and PyTorch skills, and experience with end-to-end model development and post-training techniques. The U.S. pay range is $142,700 to $270,950 annually, with California pay ranging from $187,100 to $270,950.

Required Skills

Python
PyTorch
Transformer models
Diffusion models
Data curation
Model evaluation
Post-training

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Master’s or Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: Hands-on experience developing transformer, diffusion, or multimodal architectures through direct training or adaptation of model parameters
End-to-end model development, including data preparation, training, evaluation, and failure analysis
Experience with post-training techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, and alignment
Preferred Qualifications: Large-scale or distributed training, large datasets, and compute- or memory-efficient training techniques
Optimizing inference latency, throughput, memory utilization, or serving cost
Synthetic-data generation, filtering, and quality control
Years of relevant experience with sustained technical ownership, cross-functional influence, mentorship, and measurable research or product impact
Translation Company Name: Adobe