Our CompanyChanging 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!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 Firefly family of models: Image, Vector and Designs - leading to almost 5 billion images generated since March '23!We deeply believe that training Generative models for content creation and editing, training them responsibly and making them usable commercially, deeply integrating them in existing workflow and enabling creative control for our professional and consumer users is the right strategy to help our customers success in this AI era, and transform Adobe into an AI company!Adobe Firefly Applied Science & Machine Learning (ASML) organization is looking for a highly motivated and skilled applied research leader to head our efforts in developing Adobe Firefly video & audio foundation models and their applications. This leader will also oversee the advanced development of model efficiency algorithms to reduce the model size and inference time of our foundational models across all modalities. You will be leading several research teams that design, train and deliver new Firefly models. You will provide strategic technical guidance to steer the direction of the development and to ensure the success of the shipping of Firefly video and audio models in the near future.As a Director of Applied Research at Adobe, you will join an outstanding team of applied researchers building the future of digital experiences powered by Generative AI models. You will have the opportunity to advise the Adobe AI technology portfolio and shape the product development strategy. You will oversee rapid innovation to advance the creativity world through features in Adobe's products and reach millions of people worldwide.What you'll doDefine the applied research charter in the video, audio and model efficiency domains.Supervise video and audio foundational models from several teams of applied scientists and machine learning engineers.Supervise Network Architecture Search (NAS), pruning, distillation, quantization algorithms to improve model inference efficiencyKeep track of the latest innovation in academia and open-source community to encourage rapid adoption of pioneering technologies and introduce in-house adaptation and improvements.Establish strong partnership with other research and applied research teams to jointly push forward Generative AI agenda.Work with our product teams to define the quality targets and prioritize feature developments.Provide clear requirements for the data and platform teams to prepare for model training.Supervise the model handoff and integration engineering for downstream model evaluation, and service deployment.Collaborate with Firefly imaging foundation model team to leverage and build various applicationsPartner with NLP team to establish the end2end algorithm pipeline for video generation and editing workflows.Collaborate with design and product management to identify model limitations and areas of improvement needed. Supervise the solution design for addressing the identified priorities.Collaborate with legal, privacy and product equity teams to identify model