COMPLETE Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Research - San Jose

Our Company

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 Opportunity  

We are looking to bring on a Senior Principal Scientist to run the Dynamic Media Organization in Adobe Research, reporting to the Head of Adobe Research as a member of staff. The organization focuses on inventing fundamental breakthroughs and having product impact in the areas of next generation video editing, effects and generation, audio editing, transformation and generation, simulation and animation, and human-computer interaction. Product impact can include release-defining features in existing products, and partnerships with product teams to develop next generation experiences. Members of Adobe Research contribute significantly to publications in multiple domains as well as run technical programs for major conferences. We regularly publish several hundred peer-reviewed papers per year. Members of DMO publish at major peer-reviewed conferences spanning the range of computer graphics, computer vision, human computer interaction, audio transformation, music generation and speech.

One particular benefit of working at Adobe is an opportunity to enable and experience the creative work of our customers, as celebrated at our Adobe MAX conference. This mutual inspiration of artistic output and technical invention has kept Adobe at the cutting edge of technology and art. Our open and inclusive culture makes it a great place to work.

What you’ll do

The role involves reviewing and guiding each of the major strategic areas, hiring critical talent, building and enhancing relationships with Adobe product teams, ensuring vibrant engagement with academic institutions, investing in major new initiatives in emerging technologies, and communicating goals and breakthroughs to senior leadership, to Adobe, and Adobe’s customers. The role requires experience guiding highly motivated world-class researchers towards ambitious goals, generating original intellectual property, and creating real-world impact. A fundamental part of our innovation culture is our intern program in which the research organization roughly doubles in size each year, to explore new ideas. The opportunities this creates are so rich that an ability to prioritize between compelling ideas is often required, along with the focus to scale up strategic projects to the massive scale required by today’s artificial intelligence technologies, such as Adobe’s recent release of Firefly – an inspiring generative technology for still images.

What you'll need to succeed

• A PhD from a major university; a technical degree is required

• Nationally recognized professional expertise

• Extensive research experience in the creative media space

• Working knowledge of AI in video, audio and/or imagery

• Track record of developing break-through ideas   

• Proven success in partnering, influencing, and collaborating internally and externally to establish shared passion and goals and drive flawless execution 

• At ease influencing peers, especially in product management

• Inspirational leadership experience

• Possesses excellent communication skills and ability to work across the most senior levels of Adobe. 

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 $199,000 -- $395,600 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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