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Adobe

Director, ML Services Engineering

AI summary of the role

Director of ML Engineering for Adobe's new Firefly Foundry venture, an enterprise managed-service for custom multimedia generative AI.

What you’ll do

  • Define and implement the technical strategy to scale Firefly Foundry from a managed service for early-design partners into a platform serving hundreds of enterprise customers concurrently.
  • Own the unit economics of inference: cost-to-serve, GPU utilization, and gross margin on the managed service.
  • Define tenancy and data-isolation architecture to honor enterprise IP contracts under audit.
  • Drive the self-serve roadmap to broaden Firefly Foundry's reach beyond hands-on engagements.

What you’ll bring

  • 10+ years in applied machine learning and ML systems, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations with experience leading managers of managers.
  • Demonstrated success shipping generative AI products in production at enterprise scale.
  • Deep understanding of modern generative model landscape (diffusion, transformers, VAEs, latent video models, control/adapters, or similar).
  • Strong intuition for the economics and engineering reality of large-scale inference: accelerator stacks, model optimization and quantization, and tradeoffs between quality, latency, and cost.

Technologies

Firefly Foundry · generative AI · diffusion · transformers · VAEs · latent video models · CUDA · NCCL · GPU · model optimization · quantization

About Adobe

Builds creative, document, and enterprise customer-experience software, now embedding Firefly AI and agents across creator and marketer workflows.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

The Opportunity Firefly Foundry is a new business venture at Adobe — an enterprise managed-service offering for custom multimedia generative AI. The offering includes deep-tuned custom image, video, and 3D models built on each customer’s IP, paired with creative workflows for content production and VFX, deployed across new and existing Adobe surfaces, and surrounded by a media intelligence layer. The business has gained significant traction in Media & Entertainment (M&E), marketing, and consumer retail, and is rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals. We are hiring a Director, ML Engineering to own the engineering function behind Firefly Foundry’s model services at enterprise scale. This is a multi-faceted executive role with end-to-end accountability for how Firefly Foundry’s models are productionized, served, and operated for our enterprise customers — and for the engineering
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