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About the Role

Adobe's Sound Design AI group (SODA) is seeking a driven Data/ML engineer to advance audio GenAI. Join the team behind Firefly Generate Sound Effects and other AI models integrated into Adobe products. This role is crucial for productizing cutting-edge research into impactful tools for Adobe's creative users.

Responsibilities

Build, deploy, and monitor large-scale data pipelines for ingesting, filtering, and preprocessing audio and video at scale, ensuring 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 and opportunities, defining briefs, and working with vendors and producers 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 "ears" and 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 acquisition
Data licensing
Communication

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

P50
Individual Contributor

Salary/Compensations

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

Benefits

Total target compensation (TTC = base + commission) for sales roles
Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) for non-sales roles
New hire equity award may be available for certain roles
Comprehensive benefits programs

About the Company

Adobe is a company that empowers employees to innovate with AI and is recognized around the world for its exceptional work environment.
Adobe celebrates creativity, curiosity, and constant learning.
Adobe is committed to creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
Adobe focuses on people, purpose, and community.
Adobe is committed to advancing its mission of empowering everyone to create.

Equal Opportunity

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Adobe does 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 its 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.