Machine Learning Research Associate

Adobe is seeking a highly motivated and versatile Research Scientist to join our Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) Laboratory in the Digital Experience (DX) business unit. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to engage in world-class research that will craft the future of digital experiences. As a part of our ambitious team, you will work on innovative research problems and implement solutions to redefine how businesses operate. As part of the research team, you will get an opportunity to turn your research ideas into successful products and at the same time, disseminate them at top conferences and journals. Responsibilities Design, implement, and optimize ML algorithms to address real-world problems in understanding user behavior and generating content to improve marketing performance. Develop scalable synthetic data generation and evaluation techniques. Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from diverse sources. Train models and run experiments to study data and model quality. Iteratively refine research experiments and clearly communicate insights to the team. Integrate core machine learning models into the Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Experience Platform. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to rapidly prototype and transition conceptual prototypes from research to production. Requirements Proven expertise in one or more of the following areas: Large Language Models, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Behavioral Sciences, Agentic Workflows, Social Network Analysis, Causal Inference, Recommendation Systems, Multimodal Content Understanding. Quality research work published in top conferences. Hands-on experience and a track record of deploying solutions in production environments. Experience in deriving concrete conclusions and actionable insights from large datasets. Ability to take research risks and solve hard problems independently. BTech (for research associates) or PhD degree or an equivalent experience (for research scientists) in industrial research in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or other relevant technical fields. You Will Thrive In This Role If You: Are a great teammate who is willing to take on a variety of tasks to ensure the success of the team Have a consistent track record for empirical research, answering complex questions with data. Have experience working in complex technical environments, improving research velocity. Possess a flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision. Have familiarity with relational databases, SQL and large-scale data systems such as Apache Spark.