Applied Scientist

Adobe
Seattle, Washington, United States of America2026-06-23Full time

About the job

Exciting opportunity for an Applied Scientist to drive innovation in image and video understanding at Adobe. Collaborate with top researchers, develop scalable ML models, and shape the future of creative tools. Ideal for those with strong Python, PyTorch, and Generative AI expertise. Join us to make a global impact in digital experiences.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement scalable and efficient modeling algorithms that can work with large-scale data in production systems

Develop and fine-tune (e.g., ViTs, VLMs, multimodal encoders) large-scale foundation models for video understanding and generation

Collaborate with extraordinary researchers and engineers to bring research ideas to production

Convert a research idea/paper to code in Python and typical machine learning development toolkits

Stay on top of the latest ML research (e.g., diffusion models, alignment methods, multimodal understanding) and translate advances into practical solutions

Qualifications

Minimum

Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields

Excellent communication skills

Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch

Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals

Experience with distributed training and its common strategies

Experience in state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies, such as VLMs and diffusion models

Strong hands-on experience working on image/video understanding, generation and editing

Working with large-scale datasets

Good publication record in Computer Vision, AI/ML or related fields

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.