Principal Scientist

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Were on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity Come help build Adobes next generation of professional video creation tools. This will involve Machine Learning and Generative Technologies and enable our customers to creatively and productively work with video in ways they never could before. You will join a team of engineers with extensive backgrounds in infrastructure and distributed systems, video and audio processing, and machine learning. You will be responsible for both defining high-level service architecture specifications that provide direction to your team members, and for delivering the implementation of components of that service architecture. What youll do:

• Architect distributed systems for the storage and processing of dynamic media data
• Develop efficient, reliable, and testable services in TypeScript, Python, and C++ that are designed to run on Kubernetes
• Maintain code to address functional changes, language/library/service updates, and bug fixes
• Regularly review and improve test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, including reviewing their code and providing guidance on implementation approaches
• Work in a small, collaborative, and highly productive team environment
• Participate in inventing technology that has a big impact across Adobe by writing patents, and by being active in Adobes internal community of software development professionals
• Participate in Adobes Machine Learning technology initiatives.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor of Science, or higher degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
• Firm computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design
• Expertise with professional customer workflows involving animation, motion graphics, and visual effects
• Significant (15+ years) experience developing services in TypeScript, Python, or C++
• Experience with the web platform, including competence with frontend web technologies at a level that enables you to build test interfaces and developer tools
• Experience with audio and video processing and media formats
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Interest in future people-management opportunities

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 positionis $190,200 -- $351,300 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.

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.

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Massachusetts:

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