Sr. Software Engineer, Inference Platform Development

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!

Firefly is the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products that offers a new way to ideate, create, and scale content. It’s a natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years.

At the core of Firefly are our commercially safe generative AI models trained on hundreds of millions of assets owned or licensed by Adobe. We are hiring for a highly strategic and visible role to help evolve these models and the associated prompt engine. This is an opportunity to reach millions of creatives, helping them reinvent the way they work.

What you'll do

• Design and lead the technical development of the Firefly service and its components
• Optimize services to address high performance, latency, and load requirements
• Understand the service requirements and technical constraints of various platforms and come up with solutions to simplify the software stack
• Develop efficient, reliable, testable services code in a variety of stacks (JVM, Python)
• Work closely with engineers on the team to guide the development process from requirements and design through development, integration, testing, and deployment
• Work with other Adobe teams advising on using our technology, investigating bugs, and collaborating on providing new features
• Regularly review and tune test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
• Respond to urgent production issues requiring fast resolution and deployment of code fixes/updates
• Participate in inventing technology that has an enormous impact across Adobe, writing patents, and being an active internal community of software development professionals

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor of Science, or higher degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience with server-side/backend service development
• Proficiency with Python
• Be able to take ownership of complex projects and provide end-to-end engineering solutions: from architecture design to implementation and production support
• Must be well versed with distributed computing principles, proven experience building reliable high performance cloud platforms and services.
• In-depth knowledge of containerization and modern deployment strategies (k8s)
• Proficient in services frameworks, deployment, and monitoring tools
• Firm computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design
• Works well in a small, collaborative, highly productive team environment across multiple geographies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus qualifications

• Experience with GPU-based ML inference services

#FireflyGenAI

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.

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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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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