Jobs / United States / Adobe INC
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Adobe INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles170 certified filings for “Machine Learning Engineer” (Data Scientists) in CA: $164k–$215k, median $184k. Most were filed at wage level II (45%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Opportunity Adobe's AI and generative AI products, from Firefly to the intelligence built into Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud, run on a shared compute and inference platform. It's the infrastructure every internal ML team uses to train models and serve them to production at global scale. As a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you'll own core parts of that platform. That means extracting maximum utilization from large GPU fleets, moving models from experiment to production without a rewrite, and serving inference at low latency and high throughput under real traffic. You set technical direction rather than take tickets, and the architecture you define shapes how hundreds of engineers across Adobe train and ship AI. Key Responsibilities ● Own the architecture and roadmap for major components of the ML compute and inference platform, such as training orchestration, GPU scheduling and utilization, model serving, or the developer-facing surfaces ML teams build on. ● Design and operate distributed systems that run large-scale training and low-latency, high-throughput inference reliably across thousands of accelerators. ● Drive multi-tenancy, elasticity, and cost/utilization efficiency across a shared GPU fleet serving many teams with competing demands. ● Build the paths that move a model from experiment to production without re-implementation, from packaging and registry through deployment and safe rollout. ● Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, and performance, and raise the bar for how the platform is built and operated. ● Partner with ML researchers and product teams to turn emerging workloads into first-class platform capabilities, and inform capacity and hardware strategy. ● Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the platform organization. Required Qualifications ● 7+ years building and operating large-scale platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems in production, with direct ownership of performance, scalability, and reliability. ● Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and operating large multi-node and multi-region clusters. ● Strong programming ability in Python and at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, or Java). ● A track record of designing systems that other engineers build on, making deliberate architectural tradeoffs and taking them from design to production at scale. ● A bias for measurable outcomes (latency, throughput, utilization, reliability) and the collaboration skills to drive them across teams and partners. Nice to Have ● Experience with GPU or accelerator scheduling, performance tuning, or fleet management. ● Familiarity with ML framework internals or distributed training (PyTorch, FSDP, DeepSpeed) or modern inference stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, Ray Serve). ● Experience operating ML or data infrastructure at the scale of a major ML-driven product organization About Adobe Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. Let’s Adob