Adobe

Senior Applied Scientist

San Jose, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$164k-$313kDetected 9 hours ago

PythonExpressData StructuresAlgorithmsAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningPyTorchNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsResearch

About the role

Join us at Adobe as a Senior Applied Scientist 5 on the Adobe Brand Intelligence Predict team in San Jose, CA!

Invent, build, and ship LLM-powered systems that simulate consumer audiences end-to-end, advancing from initial validation to full deployment.
Develop complex inference and reasoning harnesses on top of frontier LLMs, agentic flows, persona conditioning, retrieval, and sampling strategies tuned for distributional fidelity.
own the full loop from data curation through eval.
Build the evaluation datasets, benchmarks, and harnesses that define what "good" means for synthetic audience quality - distributional fidelity, behavioral validity, subgroup calibration.
Partner with product management, applied science, and engineering to translate a fast-moving research literature into shipping product features.
Substantial hands-on experience building LLM-based applications in production.
Proven track record of building evaluation datasets and harnesses.

Experience with RLHF, RLAIF, or RL-based state alignment of LLMs.
Proficiency in Python and strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and modern ML tooling (PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, W&B or equivalents).

Prior work on synthetic audiences, persona simulation, or LLM-based human behavior modeling.
Familiarity with the synthetic audiences research literature (e.g., silicon samples, generative agents, SubPOP, HumanLM, DeepBind).
Experience with public opinion or survey data (GSS, ANES, WVS, MIDUS) or panel-based consumer research data.
Adobe Brand Intelligence Predict is reinventing how brands make marketing decisions.
Today, brands launch campaigns and wait weeks for the market to tell them what worked.
We sit at the frontier of one of the most actively-evolving areas in applied AI.
No one has won yet.
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.

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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 $164,000 -- $313,300 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 $216,400 - $313,300
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.

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

Predict changes that - by simulating audiences of LLM-powered synthetic consumers, brands can pre-test creative, messaging, and product concepts in minutes against statistically grounded models of their real customers.
The synthetic audiences research field has moved from "what if we asked GPT to play the ultimatum game?" in 2022 to competing paradigms - prompt-based persona binding, supervised fine-tuning on survey distributions, and RL-based latent state alignment - in 2026.
Our mission is to bring that science into product, and to do it at the speed and quality bar of a startup inside the company whose products every brand on Earth already uses.
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.
At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.

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