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Lead Software Engineer - ML Platform

Adobe Systems
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/23/2025

Job Details

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Help build innovative ML/GenAI platform to server and scale Adobe's enterprise ML services. Work with data scientists, engineers, ML researchers, and product managers to optimize the customer experience.

The candidate will have a proven history of leading and developing top-notch enterprise services and solutions. Familiarity with MLOps and ML system development would be helpful.
What you'll do
  • Design, develop, optimize, and maintain cloud-based platform to serve various AI/ML products and services.
  • Lead junior to mid-level engineers to collectively execute and deliver time-sensitive features and functionalities with high quality and robust observability.
  • Work directly with ML engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and enterprise customers to gather technical requirements and understand the use-case difficulties to provide pragmatic architecture, objective timeline, delivery milestones, and tasks distribution.
  • Drive innovation by staying ahead of the latest industry trends and technologies.
What you need to succeed
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent experience; 5 years of software development experience.
  • Proven ability and extensive experience in owning, crafting, and developing enterprise-scale platform focused SaaS applications.
  • Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, etc. and related frameworks (e.g., Flask, Django, Gin, Spring, etc).
  • Industry experience in designing, building, and maintaining highly available, secure, and scalable RESTful API and micro-services.
  • Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.) and experience in developing applications on these.
  • Sound understanding of relational (e.g., Postgres, MySQL)and/or non-relational (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB) and their internals.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving ability in a constantly evolving domain.
  • Excellent communication skills and a phenomenal teammate.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with MLOps and ML system development.
  • Familiarity with RAG pipeline and Agentic applications.
  • Understanding of GenAI fundamentals, including foundation models, fine-tuning, etc.
  • Knowledge of modern ML operationalization frameworks, including Ray, MLFlow, etc.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email or call .

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other's employees.

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 $133,900 -- $242,000 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.

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.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email or call .

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other's employees.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Salary : $133,900 - $242,000

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