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　　Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. Wegive everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need todesign and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate aboutempowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, andapps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

　　We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creatingexceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access toequal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in theorganization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

　　Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about.And in the last several years, we've been on a roll launching the Fireflyfamily of models: Image, Vector and Designs - leading to almost 5 billionimages generated since March '23!We deeply believe that training Generative models for content creation andediting, training them responsibly and making them usable commercially,deeply integrating them in existing workflow and enabling creative control forour professional and consumer users is the right strategy to help ourcustomers success in this AI era, and transform Adobe into an AI company!

　　Adobe Firefly Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) organization islooking for a highly motivated and skilled applied research leader to head ourefforts in developing Adobe Firefly video & audio foundation models andtheir applications. This leader will also oversee the advanced development ofmodel efficiency algorithms to reduce the model size and inference time of ourfoundational models across all modalities. You will be leading severalresearch teams that design, train and deliver new Firefly models. You willprovide strategic technical guidance to steer the direction of the developmentand to ensure the success of the shipping of Firefly video and audio models inthe near future.

　　As a Director of Applied Research at Adobe, you will join an outstandingteam of applied researchers building the future of digital experiences poweredby Generative AI models. You will have the opportunity to advise the Adobe AItechnology portfolio and shape the product development strategy. You willoversee rapid innovation to advance the creativity world through features inAdobe's products and reach millions of people worldwide.What you'll do

　　Define the applied research charter in the video, audio and model efficiencydomains.

　　Supervise video and audio foundational models from several teams of appliedscientists and machine learning engineers.

　　Supervise Network Architecture Search (NAS), pruning, distillation,quantization algorithms to improve model inference efficiency

　　Keep track of the latest innovation in academia and open-source community toencourage rapid adoption of pioneering technologies and introduce in-houseadaptation and improvements.

　　Establish strong partnership with other research and applied research teams tojointly push forward Generative AI agenda.

　　Work with our product teams to define the quality targets and prioritizefeature developments.

　　Provide clear requirements for the data and platform teams to prepare formodel training.

　　Supervise the model handoff and integration engineering for downstream modelevaluation, and service deployment.

　　Collaborate with Firefly imaging foundation model team to leverage and buildvarious applications

　　Partner with NLP team to establish the end2end algorithm pipeline for videogeneration and editing workflows.

　　Collaborate with design and product management to identify model limitationsand areas of improvement needed. Supervise the solution design for addressingthe identified priorities.

　　Collaborate with legal, privacy and product equity teams to identify modelsafety issues, lead the solution development or addressing these issues

　　Refine engineering processes and practices to increase team productivity

　　Conduct hiring and talent development to accelerate success.What you need to succeed

　　Excellent leadership skills to inspire and motivate team members to achievetheir best work.

　　Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectivelyacross a large multi-functional team.

　　Strong experience in modern machine learning especially Gen AI models forimage, video, and audio domains.

　　Knowledge of machine learning engineering standard methodologies to guide theteams to produce reusable and modular code.

　　5+ years of relevant leadership experience in research or applied researchorganization. Strong understanding of innovative research from academicpublications.