COMPLETE Lead Search ML Scientist - San Jose

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Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re 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 challenge: Search, Recommendations, and Knowledge Graph is critical to Adobe’s Cloud offering. Creative professionals and novice users alike need quick access to their digital assets, libraries, the variety of creative content, and documents they work with every day, from brushes to colors, images, videos, and beyond. They need to find and discover what they’ve created, the things that have been shared with them, and even search marketplaces such as Adobe Stock or communities such as Behance.

We are building a new search, recommendations, and knowledge graph platform that powers suits of Adobe product lines such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud product, Marketing Cloud, and Document Cloud by enabling the world’s best creative tools, leading cloud services for managing creative assets, and the leading marketplace such as Adobe Stock. Search platforms will have to cater to millions of users and billions of entities. Isn’t it exciting? Become part of this growing team at Adobe and have a phenomenal impact by providing search, browse, machine learning, and recommendation across the creative suites of products at Adobe. Search is at the core of the service offered to our customers, with 20 languages covered and millions of users touched daily. The objective is to search for a world-class, leading-edge, differentiating product in terms of search effectiveness and experience. We match the pace, innovation, and excitement of a startup backed by the resources and infrastructure of Adobe!

How can you participate? We’re looking for a top-notch search engineering leadership in the area of information retrieval, search indexing, Elasticsearch, Lucene, algorithms, relevance & ranking, data mining, machine learning, data analysis & metrics, query processing, multi-lingual search, and search UX. This is an opportunity to make a huge impact in a fast-paced, startup-like environment in a great company. Join us!

Responsibilities :

• Work on the Search algorithm, behavioral data processing, and ML rankers at scale
• Process Multimodal (Text, Image, video) content and enrich the content with state-of-the-art technologies like Large Language Models, Embeddings, and Transformers
• Apply data mining and machine learning to improve the ranking and recommendations as part of the search workflow
• Build a relevant platform to rank billions of images, documents, and other assets in real time. Maintain and optimize the search engine, identify new ideas to evolve it, develop new features, and benchmark possible solutions regarding search relevance, recommendations, user experience, performance, and feasibility
• Apply Whole page relevance by understanding the user’s intent and Creative Knowledge Graph
• Build products using technologies such as AWS SageMaker, Azure ML Studio, Tensforflow, Pytorch, LLM,  Elastic Search, REST web services,  SQS/Kafka, HBase, Machine Learning, and more
• Masters degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, or other relevant subject area highly preferred
• 8+ years relevant experience required

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 $141,100 -- $281,700 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.

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