Principal Scientist

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Principal Scientist – Adobe Experience Platform

Our Company

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. Adobe is listed as Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 20 consecutive years. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give global brands everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about redefining how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours.

The Opportunity

Adobe is redefining customer intelligence. We help enterprises understand their customers deeply—what they value, what they need—and translate that understanding into meaningful, personalized experiences.

The Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) is at the heart of this mission, powering data integration, governance, advanced analytics, and intelligent services at global scale. Our next chapter focuses on agent-driven AI systems—autonomous, adaptive agents that orchestrate complex workflows, learn from data, and deliver real-time insights and actions.

At the core lies our Enterprise Knowledge Base, a foundational platform that unifies structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data. This system fuels advanced AI and Generative AI applications across Adobe’s digital marketing ecosystem—empowering customers to unlock richer, more intelligent experiences.

We are looking for someone who thrives on solving hard problems, scaling intelligent systems, and creating measurable impact. You’ll lead the design and development of low-latency, high-throughput services that power intelligent enterprise experiences across millions of users worldwide.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, implementation, and evolution of AEP Knowledge Base and Agentic AI systems.

• Strong background in distributed storage (Delta Lake, Iceberg), compute (Spark), data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP).

• Work hands-on with foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Gemini) and model adaptation techniques.

• Architect RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines and optimize vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus) for enterprise-grade AI solutions.

• Experience with foundation models (OpenAI/Anthropic/Llama/Gemini) and model adaptation techniques.

• Design and deploy high-performance, low-latency distributed systems that scale globally.

• Establish guidelines for evaluation, safety, and guardrails for system behaviour.

• Collaborate with research and product teams to integrate modern capabilities into the Platform.

• Mentor engineers, drive technical excellence, and foster a culture of continuous learning.

• Contributions to open-source projects in the agent/LLM ecosystem is desirable.

What you will need to succeed

• 15+ years in design and development of large scale data intensive distributed systems.

• 3+ years as a lead / chief architect.

• In depth work experience on technologies like Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Kubernetes, etc.

• In depth work experience on one or more public clouds like Azure, AWS or GCP.

• Strong background in Relational Stores (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

• Strong experience in Vector Stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus).

• Strong coding skills in Java, Scala, Python.

• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms.

• Cost consciousness around computation and memory requirements.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with multi-functional R&D teams.

• BTech/MTech/MS in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields.

Why Adobe

At Adobe, you’ll work in a culture that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning. Our Check-In approach fosters open feedback, career growth, and shared success.

If you’re ready to shape the future of AI-powered customer experiences and make a global impact—Adobe is the place for you.

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