The Opportunity

FireflyFoundryis a new business venture at Adobe — an enterprise managed-serviceoffering forcustom multimedia generative AI. The offering includes deep-tuned custom image, video, and 3D models built on each customer’s IP, paired with creative workflows for content production and VFX, deployed across new and existing Adobe surfaces, and surrounded by a media intelligence layer. The business has gained significant traction in Media & Entertainment (M&E), marketing, and consumer retail, and is rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals.

We are hiring aDirector, ML Engineeringto own the engineering function behindFireflyFoundry’s model services at enterprise scale. This is a multi-faceted executive role with end-to-end accountability for howFireflyFoundry’s models are productionized, served, andoperatedfor our enterprise customers — and for the engineering organization that delivers that capability.

What this role owns

You will define and implement the technical strategy that turnsFireflyFoundryfrom a managed service for early-design partners into a platform capable of serving hundreds of enterprise customers concurrently — each with their own IP, tenancy boundaries, and SLAs — powering everything from franchise extensions and new IP development to modern GenAI workflows at production scale. Specifically, you will:

• Set the engineering operating model for productionizing custom generative models across image, video, and 3D — including the architectural patterns that simplify pipeline construction and let us absorb a heterogeneous mix of internal and external models without linear engineering cost.
• Own the unit economics ofFireflyFoundryinference. Cost-to-serve, GPUutilization, and gross margin on the managed service are your numbers.
• Define the tenancy and href="https://www.adobe.com/adobe-for-all.html#:~:text=and%20culture.-,Our%20company%20values.,-As%20we%20look">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.

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  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $206,400 -- $384,675 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $265,700 - $384,675

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