Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Media Intelligence
Core
Architect and lead the data processing, indexing, and search infrastructure for Adobe's Firefly Foundry media intelligence platform, enabling agentic search over massive volumes of customer media.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Systems & Infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, hybrid lexical/vector retrieval stacks, and tool interfaces for AI agents.
Domain
Generative AI, Media Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale data processing and search/retrieval systems, Vector/ANN retrieval (HNSW, IVF, ScaNN), Hybrid retrieval and ranking, Data engineering (Spark, Flink, Ray), Multi-tenant system design, Observability and monitoring, Cloud orchestration (Kubernetes), Technical leadership and mentorship
Preferred skills
Systems languages (Go, Rust, C++), Embedding model inference paths, RAG and multimodal search, Multi-modal reasoning (text, image, video, 3D, audio)
Technologies
HNSW, IVF, ScaNN, DiskANN, Lucene, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Spark, Beam, Flink, Ray, PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
Responsibilities
Design scalable data-processing pipelines for media and model signals, Architect indexing and search infrastructure for billions of assets, Engineer retrieval interfaces for AI agents, Own index lifecycle and freshness, Define retrieval quality gates and evaluation metrics, Manage performance and cost envelope of the platform, Lead technical direction and mentor senior engineers
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
