Horizon Express Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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 You'll 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 Adobe's Horizon AI Stack and serve multiple creative workflows.
• Drive the end-to-end ML lifecycle-from 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 in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field with equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in machine learning and product development related to AI.
• 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.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's 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.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

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Expected Pay Range:

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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