Senior Backend Engineer, Inference
$172.5k - $306.63kAdobe
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 (Python, Go)
- 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
- 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
- Experience with GPU-based ML inference services
#FireflyGenAI 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. Adobe is proud to be an 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. Learn more. Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io.
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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 $172,500 -- $306,625 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 $211,800 - $306,625 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: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Colorado: Application Window Notice 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: Massachusetts Legal Notice 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.
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