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About the Role

Adobe's Sound Design AI group (SODA) is seeking a Data/ML engineer to advance audio Generative AI. This role involves owning the training data for generative audio models end-to-end, ensuring its quality, balance, and integrity to optimize model performance. The position is ideal for individuals passionate about audio and video data who want to productize cutting-edge research into impactful tools for creative users.

Responsibilities

Build, deploy, and monitor large-scale data pipelines for ingesting, filtering, and preprocessing audio and video data with reproducibility and versioning.
Run in-house models for inference over millions of audio/video files and build data exploration tools.
Curate and select training data using quantitative metrics and qualitative judgment, maintaining an understanding of the corpus's distribution, balance, diversity, coverage, and redundancy.
Train or finetune models on pipeline outputs, evaluate their behavior, and use findings to drive new data experiments and ablations, scaling training and optimizing throughput.
Drive data licensing and acquisition by identifying gaps, defining briefs, and working with vendors to license and curate new datasets.
Own the production, validation, and improvement of training labels and annotations, including model-assisted labeling at scale.

Requirements

Pipeline-building experience at scale for audio and/or video data with reproducibility and versioning.
Deep audio domain knowledge, including common datasets, quality metrics and their failure modes, codecs, normalization, and filtering.
Strong critical listening ability.
Generative-ML research experience to make data decisions, design, and run training experiments independently.
Strong command of evaluation in audio and video modeling.
Data acquisition and licensing experience, including writing briefs and communicating across stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills.

Skills

Audio data pipelines
Video data pipelines
Reproducibility
Versioning
Audio domain knowledge
Generative ML
Data evaluation
Data acquisition
Data licensing
Communication

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

All levels

Salary/Compensations

$164,600 -- $313,300 annually
$216,400 - $313,300 (California)

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits programs

About the Company

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences.
Adobe’s industry-leading offerings include Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
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 accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.
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.
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.