Lead AI/ML Engineer, Express AI Foundations

The Opportunity Adobe Express enables all users, whether individuals or large organizations, to effortlessly produce impressive content. The AI Foundations team constructs a flexible, scalable AI framework that drives creativity at scale in design, imaging, motion, and personalization. We're looking for a Lead Engineer to build and implement the AI framework for Adobe Express, merging strong ML skills with proficiency in distributed systems, data architecture, and large-scale service development. You'll lead and build systems with intelligent behavior, reasoning workflows, and production-quality ML systems that creators interact with every day. Your work will cut through layers of the end-to-end foundation that brings Agentic AI, Create AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI to life — spanning model orchestration, inference systems, data pipelines, caching and storage layers, session analytics, and continuous evaluation frameworks. ## What You’ll Do - Lead development and contribute to building the complete AI stack for Adobe Express — covering Agentic AI, Construct AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI. - Develop and operationalize end-to-end systems — integrating microservices, data pipelines, LLM orchestration layers, in-house and third-party models, databases, caches, session analytics, and evaluation systems into a cohesive architecture. - Develop large-scale data and inference infrastructure to support model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment — employing Spark, Kafka, Flink, and other distributed frameworks. - Develop high-performance runtime services for inference and orchestration with strong observability, fault tolerance, and latency guarantees. - Apply strong caching and storage tactics to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness for various AI workloads. - Lead development of experimentation and evaluation systems, encompassing session-level analytics, feedback loops, and quality metrics that drive continuous improvement. - Work closely with applied research, product, and platform teams to implement LLMs and other AI models into customer-facing services. - Mentor junior engineers and scale the team to drive collectively the charter of Agentic AI for Adobe Express. ## What You’ll Bring - 8+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems AI infrastructure, or ML platform engineering. - Proven expertise in building and scaling data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.). - Strong background in API development, caching strategies, database development, and performance optimization for large-scale serving systems. - Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, model routing, and multi-model inference. - Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Go, with an emphasis on distributed systems, cloud-native deployment, and performance tuning. - Familiarity with Agentic AI patterns — reasoning loops, memory persistence, task decomposition, and multi-agent coordination. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross-functional technical direction. ## Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field. - Experience building large scale high throughput / low latency applications backed by ML models to build workflows. - Exposure to Generative AI (LLMs, diffusion, or multimodal architectures). - Experience with MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and model registries. ## Why Adobe At Adobe, we’re crafting the future of creativity through intelligence. The AI Foundations team combines the agility of a startup with the scale and mission of Adobe — constructing the AI stack for Adobe Express, spanning Agentic, Design, Imaging, Motion, and Personalization AI. Join us to develop the infrastructure that brings adaptive, autonomous, and human-centered AI to millions of creators worldwide!

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