Adobe
Sr Manager, Machine Learning Engineering
San Jose, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$179k-$351kDetected 9 hours ago
ExpressSnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData ScienceComputer VisionMLOpsAdobe Creative SuiteIntellectual PropertyResearchLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- Adobe Firefly Foundry is a managed generative-AI service purpose-built for enterprises that need to scale content creation without compromising brand safety or workflow efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a distributed team focused on training data for Generative AI.
- Build and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines across the training data lifecycle.
- Collaborate with researchers, ML engineers, and PMs to align on data needs for new models.
- Partner across teams to align data priorities and share best practices.
Requirements
- Master's/Ph.D. in CS, Data Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field-or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership, managing data infrastructure or ML data ops teams.
- Expertise in data quality, governance, versioning, and annotation platforms.
- Proficiency with cloud data tech (AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake).
- Experience with large-scale image/video datasets.
- Familiarity with MLOps tools (e.g., DVC), annotation platforms, and compliance standards.
- Proven success supporting generative model training with robust data solutions.
- Deep understanding of ML data lifecycles, especially for generative models (GANs, diffusion).
- 7+ years building and optimizing large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehousing.
- Strong grasp of data privacy, security, and ethical AI principles.
- Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred:
- Experience in computer vision, multimedia, or creative content data ecosystems.
- Contributions to open-source tools, publications, or patents in data management.
Skills
- If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
Compensation
- 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 position is $178,900 -- $351,225 annually.
- Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and 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 $242,600 - $351,225
- 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.
Benefits
- In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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