Senior Applied Scientist

Job Description 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. Our goal is to push the frontier of generative AI while ensuring models are safe, efficient, aligned with user intent and deployable at scale. Job Responsibilities Conduct innovative research and development in post-training alignment and model distillation for large-scale generative AI models. Design and evaluate techniques such as RLHF, DPO/GRPO, SFT, reward modeling, and preference optimization to improve instruction-following, controllability, and safety. Develop efficient distillation, compression, and inference acceleration methods to make frontier models deployable at scale. Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to transfer post-training innovations into Adobe products. Build and maintain pipelines to evaluate generative models across quality, efficiency, and safety metrics. Convert research ideas/papers into production-ready implementations in Python and modern ML toolkits. Provide technical mentorship and guidance to peers and junior researchers. What You'll Need to Succeed Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. Strong hands-on experience with large-scale generative AI training and post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO/GRPO, distillation). Familiarity with diffusion models, transformers, or other state-of-the-art generative architectures. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams. Strong coding and prototyping ability in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tools. Experience working with product teams on technology transfers. Good publication record in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields. Expected Pay Range The U.S. pay range for this position is $142,700 – $270,950 annually. Pay within this range varies by location and may depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Adobe is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. #J-18808-Ljbffr Adobe