Principal Scientist - Firefly Enterprise

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Principal Scientist: Firefly Enterprise India   The Opportunity   Firefly Enterprise brings Adobe's generative AI and creative technology into the heart of enterprise content production by helping large organizations create, adapt, and deliver on-brand content at production scale, inside the tools their teams already use.  Our charter spans two areas:  • Audio/Video Solutions: The media-processing backbone for enterprise-scale content production: ingesting, transforming, generating, and delivering audio and video reliably at production volume.  • Extensibility: Enterprise agentic workflows and plug-ins that surface Firefly's enterprise capabilities directly inside Figma and other Adobe creative applications.  We're looking for a Principal Scientist to be the technical anchor of a small, fast-growing team; a player-coach who is as comfortable in the architecture and the codebase as in a design review or a customer conversation.  This is a senior individual-contributor role. You won't carry direct reports or own headcount, but you will set the technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and mentor a team of software and machine-learning engineers. You'll partner closely with engineering managers on people leadership, and you'll be instrumental in interviewing and holding the hiring bar high.  Impact You'll Make   • Set the long-term technical architecture and vision across both charter areas.  • Make enterprise-scale reliability and resiliency a first-class property of everything the team ships.  • Bring AI capabilities into the product and into how the team builds, raising both customer value and engineering velocity.  • Grow a scaling team of software and machine-learning engineers through hands-on work and mentorship, i.e., lifting the technical bar by example.  • Turn customer and field insight into a credible, deliverable roadmap in partnership with adjacent teams.  What You'll Do   • Own the architecture for enterprise-scale audio/video media-processing pipelines by designing for throughput, latency, cost, and operational resilience at production volume.  • Architect the extensibility platform : agentic enterprise workflows and plug-ins that expose Firefly's enterprise capabilities inside Figma and other Adobe creative apps.  • Stay hands-on by writing code, leading design and architecture reviews, and setting the engineering standards the team builds to.  • Mentor developers and specialists in machine learning alike, growing their technical judgment through the work.   • Play an instrumental role in hiring: interview, calibrate, and keep the bar high.   • Interface directly with customers and field/sales teams to identify real problems and collaborate across adjacent teams to shape the roadmap and deliver solutions.  • Manage collaborators and expectations across engineering, product, and the field; with clarity and follow-through.  • Leverage AI capabilities to improve both what customers get and how the team develops software.  What You'll Bring   • 15+ years building large-scale distributed software systems.  • Proven experience operating at enterprise scale with a deep focus on reliability and resiliency .  • Strong backend engineering in Java, Python, or comparable technologies, with a solid command of distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.  • Experience with at least one of the team's two domains, and the ability to ramp on the other:   • Media processing: audio/video pipelines, transcoding, streaming, or large-scale media workflows.  • Extensibility: SDKs, plug-in architectures, integration frameworks, or agentic systems.  • A track record of mentoring both software engineers and machine-learning engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.  • Comfort working directly w

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