Sr. Android Machine Learning Engineer

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Qualifications
Educational Background: MS or PhD in Machine Learning Engineering
Experience: 5+ years of experience in ML engineering, with a proven record of designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality AI software solutions
Platform Expertise: Strong experience with the Android platform, covering both application development and ML engineering
Programming Skills: Proficiency in modern C/C++ and JavaScript, with extensive experience in large-scale application development
Coding Standards: Commitment to best coding practices
Problem-Solving: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to debug code within large, complex codebases
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
Customer-Focused Mindset: A passion for creating high-quality applications that users love
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Benefits
The U.S. pay range for this position is $162,000 -- $301,200 annually
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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
Creativity, curiosity, and constant learning are celebrated aspects of your career growth journey
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Responsibilities
You’ll work within a dynamic, customer-centric GenAI and Vision Applied Research team, where you’ll be responsible for transforming research models into production-ready solutions for mobile platforms
Your work will help bring the “Adobe Magic” to life, enhancing the Photoshop ecosystem to deliver an exceptional user experience
Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with researchers, software engineers, UI designers, product managers, and quality engineers to integrate advanced imaging and AI/ML features into the Photoshop ecosystem as polished, user-friendly products
Model Conversion: Convert models from frameworks like PyTorch to formats such as LiteRT (TensorFlow Lite) or ONNX for optimal performance on various platforms
Model Optimization: Use state-of-the-art techniques (quantization, palettization, sparsity induction, pruning, etc.)
to compress and accelerate large models, ensuring efficiency on resource-limited devices
Performance Analysis & Optimization: Analyze models for efficient execution on Android GPU/NPU, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with hardware teams to improve latency, power usage, and memory footprint
Model Deployment: Partner with application developers to integrate optimized models into applications, maintaining a seamless user experience
Quality & Customer Advocacy: Act as a champion for product quality and a customer advocate, ensuring that all solutions meet Adobe’s high standards for excellence
Continuous Improvement: Bring energy, flexibility, focus, and dedication to every project
Embrace new challenges and proactively acquire knowledge and skills to deliver impactful results
Job description
JOB LEVEL
P50

EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual Contributor

The Photoshop team is looking for a skilled ML Engineer who is passionate about advancing technology and building creative imaging experiences that inspire our customers. You’ll work within a dynamic, customer-centric GenAI and Vision Applied Research team, where you’ll be responsible for transforming research models into production-ready solutions for mobile platforms. Your work will help bring the “Adobe Magic” to life, enhancing the Photoshop ecosystem to deliver an exceptional user experience.

Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with researchers, software engineers, UI designers, product managers, and quality engineers to integrate advanced imaging and AI/ML features into the Photoshop ecosystem as polished, user-friendly products.
• Model Conversion: Convert models from frameworks like PyTorch to formats such as LiteRT (TensorFlow Lite) or ONNX for optimal performance on various platforms.
• Model Optimization: Use state-of-the-art techniques (quantization, palettization, sparsity induction, pruning, etc.) to compress and accelerate large models, ensuring efficiency on resource-limited devices.
• Performance Analysis & Optimization: Analyze models for efficient execution on Android GPU/NPU, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with hardware teams to improve latency, power usage, and memory footprint.
• Model Deployment: Partner with application developers to integrate optimized models into applications, maintaining a seamless user experience.
• Quality & Customer Advocacy: Act as a champion for product quality and a customer advocate, ensuring that all solutions meet Adobe’s high standards for excellence.
• Continuous Improvement: Bring energy, flexibility, focus, and dedication to every project. Embrace new challenges and proactively acquire knowledge and skills to deliver impactful results.

What You Need to Succeed
• Educational Background: MS or PhD in Machine Learning Engineering.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in ML engineering, with a proven record of designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality AI software solutions.
• Platform Expertise: Strong experience with the Android platform, covering both application development and ML engineering.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in modern C/C++ and JavaScript, with extensive experience in large-scale application development.
• Computer Vision Knowledge: Experience with computer vision is preferred.
• Cross-Platform Development: Experience with development for multiple platforms (iOS, desktop, web/WASM) is a plus.
• Coding Standards: Commitment to best coding practices.
• Problem-Solving: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to debug code within large, complex codebases.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Customer-Focused Mindset: A passion for creating high-quality applications that users love.

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 $162,000 -- $301,200 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.

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.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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