Senior Applied Scientist

ADOBE

Seattle, United States
Base: $142,700 -- $270,950 annually; bonus/equity:...
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (rlhf)
Direct preference optimization (dpo/grpo)
Supervised fine-tuning (sft)
Adobe Firefly’s Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for research scientists and engineers focused on post-training, alignment, and distillation of large-scale generative AI models

Job Summary

  • Adobe Firefly’s Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for research scientists and engineers focused on post-training, alignment, and distillation of large-scale generative AI models.
  • This work directly impacts the quality, efficiency, and safety of Firefly’s image and video generation models, enabling next-generation creative workflows for millions of users.
  • You will have the opportunity to innovate across the full post-training stack, collaborate across data, modeling, and product, and see your work ship to customers worldwide.

Matching Summary

Adobe Firefly’s Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) group is looking for research scientists and engineers focused on post-training, alignment, and distillation of large-scale generative AI models.

Salary

Base: $142,700 -- $270,950 annually; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)
  • Direct preference optimization (DPO/GRPO)
  • Supervised fine-tuning (SFT)
  • Model distillation and efficiency
  • Generative AI model evaluation

Nice-to-have

  • Innovation across post-training stack
  • Collaboration with product teams
  • Technical mentorship and guidance

Key Requirements

  • Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale generative AI training and post-training
  • Familiarity with diffusion models, transformers, or state-of-the-art generative architectures
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong coding and prototyping ability in Python, PyTorch
  • Working with product teams on technology transfers
  • Good publication record in AI/ML fields

Work Rights

Not specified

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