Sr / Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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Join Adobe Security Engineering and help build the ML and generative AI capabilities that protect Adobe, our products, and our customers. Our team sits where cybersecurity, large-scale data, and AI meet, building models for anomaly detection, threat detection, investigation, and security analytics across some of Adobe's largest datasets. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you'll design, build, and scale production ML systems spanning deep learning, behavioral modeling, embeddings, and agentic AI. You'll write code, train models, run experiments, and help shape the architecture the broader team builds on. You'll also partner closely with data, platform, and security engineers across Adobe. The Challenge • Architect end-to-end ML systems for high-volume security data, turning experiments into reusable capabilities. • Own the ML lifecycle, from feature engineering through training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. • Build LLM and agentic AI capabilities for security investigation, including retrieval-augmented generation. • Design evaluation frameworks that measure model quality and help analysts trust and validate results. • Work with data and platform engineers to scale pipelines and resolve system bottlenecks together. • Mentor engineers and help guide technical direction through design reviews and hands-on collaboration. What you bring • Experience running production ML systems from early experimentation through sustained operation at scale. • A strong background training models with PyTorch and transformers, including behavioral modeling and anomaly detection. • Comfort with distributed compute like Spark, cloud platforms like AWS, and MLOps tools like MLflow. • Experience building with LLMs or generative AI, along with evaluating how they behave in production. • Strong Python and SQL skills, and solid software engineering habits like testing and code review. • A collaborative approach to mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction across teams. • MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Nice to have • Background applying ML to cybersecurity, fraud, or similar adversarial problems. • Experience with vector databases, RAG, or multi-agent systems. • Publications, patents, or open-source contributions to ML or AI. 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 Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture , focus on people, purpose and community , Adobe for All , comprehensive benefits programs , the stories we tell , the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, v

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