Sr. Software Engineer, Inference
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P50EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorSenior Software Engineer, Inference
Firefly is the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products that offers a new way to ideate, create, and scale content. It’s a natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years.
At the core of Firefly are our commercially safe generative AI models trained on hundreds of millions of assets owned or licensed by Adobe. We are hiring for a highly strategic and visible role to help evolve these models and the associated prompt engine. This is an opportunity to reach millions of creatives, helping them reinvent the way they work.
What you'll do
Design and lead the technical development of the Firefly service and its components
Optimize services to address high performance, latency, and load requirements
Understand the service requirements and technical constraints of various platforms and come up with solutions to simplify the software stack
Develop efficient, reliable, testable services code in a variety of stacks (Python, Go)
Work closely with engineers on the team to guide the development process from
requirements and design through development, integration, testing, and deployment
Work with other Adobe teams advising on using our technology, investigating bugs, and collaborating on providing new features
Regularly review and tune test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
Respond to urgent production issues requiring fast resolution and deployment of code fixes/updates
Participate in inventing technology that has an enormous impact across Adobe, writing patents, and being an active internal community of software development professionals
What you need to succeed
Bachelor of Science, or higher degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
10+ years of experience with server-side/backend service development
Proficiency with Python
Be able to take ownership of complex projects and provide end-to-end engineering solutions: from architecture design to implementation and production support
Must be well versed with distributed computing principles, proven experience building reliable high performance cloud platforms and services.
In-depth knowledge of containerization and modern deployment strategies (k8s)
Proficient in services frameworks, deployment, and monitoring tools
Firm computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design
Works well in a small, collaborative, highly productive team environment across multiple geographies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus qualifications
Experience with GPU-based ML inference services
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