Sr. Machine Learning Engineer - Photoshop

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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!

We are building an advanced AI platform that powers next-generation creative workflows for flagship products like Photoshop and Lightroom. As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, you will combine hands-on engineering with architectural leadership to design and implement reasoning systems, tool orchestration, and multimodal integrations using cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLLMs).

In this role, you will:

• Build core agent capabilities, including planning, memory, verification, and tool orchestration.
• Integrate with multi-tenant runtimes across desktop, web, and mobile surfaces.
• Partner with product and platform teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and delightful AI experiences for millions of users.
• Evaluate and integrate multiple model providers, balancing quality, latency, and cost with strong observability.
• Define practical evaluation approaches to ensure high-quality releases.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years building ML/AI or platform systems, including production experience with LLM/VLLM-backed features.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and TypeScript; experience with cloud services.
• Proficiency in C++ is a big plus.
• Depth in agentic systems (planning, tool use, memory) and multimodal pipelines.
• Passion for turning frontier AI into impactful products.

If you thrive at the intersection of advanced AI and product engineering, and you want to shape how millions of creatives work every day, we'd love to hear from you.

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 $162,000 -- $301,200 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.

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