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San Jose, California, United States
Onsite
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Principal Engineer to join the GenStudio Engineering team. This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about building scalable, high-impact software solutions. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and influence the technical direction of GenStudio.
What You’ll Do
Shape the technical vision and roadmap for GenAI initiatives that extract structured insights from brand knowledge and transform them into verified, on-brand content at scale.
Leverage foundational principles of NLP, Linguistics, and Computer Vision to architect multimodal systems that push the frontier of grounded content generation across text, image, and video.
Drive innovation in dense, sparse, and hybrid representation, including embedding models, contrastive learning, metric learning, learning-to-rank, and reinforcement learning to advance retrieval and recommendation at scale.
Architect end-to-end AI systems utilizing LLMs, VLMs, multi-agent frameworks, and enterprise search designed for both offline training and online production workflows.
Implement and adapt techniques from academic research; evaluate algorithmic trade-offs considering data requirements, latency, and runtime.
Design industry-leading evaluation systems by combining LLM-as-judge, ensemble evaluation, offline benchmarks, A/B testing, and human-in-the-loop workflows that set the standard for how AI outputs are validated at enterprise scale.
Analyze trade-offs across cost, latency, and accuracy while ensuring compliance with UX, privacy, legal, and security constraints.
Work cross-functionally with data, research, and product teams to translate models into production-ready services.,representations
What You’ll Need to Succeed
14+ years of experience in AI/ML with a strong track record of technical leadership across multiple divisions or product areas, including shaping technical vision and roadmaps for ML organizations.
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Deep expertise across NLP, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Generative AI.
Expert-level experience with LLM fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, QLoRA), prompt engineering, RAG/GraphRAG, vector databases, multi-agent orchestration, and agentic workflows.
Strong proficiency with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, JAX, Hugging Face, CUDA) and Python.
Extensive experience with ML platform engineering (MLOps/LLMOps) including distributed training, model serving, feature stores, experiment platforms, and observability systems across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Solid grasp of data engineering including dataset management, feature engineering, labeling pipelines, data drift, and quality frameworks at scale.
Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate technical standards across teams.
Preferred Attributes
Recognized thought leader within and beyond the organization through publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences, open-source contributions, or participation in industry forums.
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and champion emerging technologies across engineering organizations.
Experience building and shipping GenAI-first applications at enterprise scale.
First-principles mindset for challenging assumptions about how AI systems should be designed, evaluated, and deployed.
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let’s Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.
Expected Pay Range:
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 $206,400 -- $379,100 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $261,800 - $379,100

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.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
