Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Performance and Scalability Lead, Generative AI

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About the Role

Adobe Firefly is seeking a Lead Engineer to focus on Performance and Scalability for our Generative AI systems, powering flagship products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, and firefly.adobe.com. In this senior role, you will be responsible for optimizing high-performance, scalable AI pipelines, supporting millions of users worldwide.

You will work closely with machine learning researchers, infrastructure engineers, and applied scientists to ensure that generative AI models are efficiently deployed, scaled, and monitored, without directly implementing model training, quantization, or tensor parallelism.

Responsibilities

Architect and optimize ML pipelines to support scalable inference and model deployment on cloud-based GPU infrastructure (e.g., AWS P5 instances).

Develop and maintain high-throughput serving pipelines for generative AI models, ensuring low-latency, high-performance execution.

Enable model serving optimizations by designing systems that support tensor parallelism, quantization, distillation, and caching, in collaboration with ML research teams.

Develop automated monitoring and profiling tools to track system efficiency, detect performance regressions, and optimize resource utilization.

Optimize GPU resource allocation and orchestration across cloud-based ML workloads.

Integrate scalable load testing frameworks to validate model inference performance under high-traffic conditions.

Collaborate with infrastructure and applied ML teams to transition models from experimentation to production-ready, cloud-optimized deployments.

Establish standard methodologies for scaling and cloud-native ML architectures, ensuring efficient deployment across multi-region cloud environments.

Qualifications

8+ years of proven track record in building high-performance ML infrastructure and scalable AI systems.

Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with expertise in building ML pipelines and model deployment infrastructure.

Experience deploying large-scale ML models in cloud environments, including AWS GPU instances, Kubernetes, Ray, or similar.

Experience with model conversion and optimization frameworks like ONNX and TensorRT, as well as AOT compilation techniques.

Experience with cloud-native architectures, autoscaling strategies, and fault-tolerant machine learning systems.

Proficiency in GPU orchestration, CUDA, and accelerated inference techniques.

Hands-on experience with profiling tools (e.g., Nsight, PyTorch Profiler, perf) for system performance analysis.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with multi-functional teams.

Why Join Us?

Firefly is Adobe's groundbreaking family of AI models, crafted to transform content creation in our products. Join us to shape the future of creativity and enhance pipelines for millions of users in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro. This is a highly strategic and visible role, where you'll have the chance to create a significant impact on the future of generative AI at Adobe.

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