Sr Principal ML Optimization/GPU Architect

    • Adobe Systems
  • San Jose, CA
  • Posted 60+ days ago | Updated 11 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 205,900.00 - 407,500.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

C++
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Open source
Emerging technologies
Intellectual property
Performance analysis
Deep learning
Distributed computing
IaaS
Resource management
Computer science
Machine Learning (ML)
Optimization
GPU
Adobe
Design
IDEA
Artificial intelligence
Adobe Photoshop
Leadership
Reporting
Data
Training
IMPACT
Publications
Strategy
Expect
Recruiting
Research
Roadmaps
Mentorship
CUDA
Linux
Ansible
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
OpenCL
Amazon Web Services
Software deployment
Blogging
Creativity

Job Details

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!

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.

The Opportunity

At Adobe, we're driving our reinvention as an AI company and betting on Generative AI! Last year, we released many Generative AI capabilities under the Firefly umbrella - features used by more than 50% Photoshop users and generating 5B+ images, while doing AI responsibly and transparently!

We are looking to bring on a Senior Principal ML GPU Architect to lead the ML GPU optimization team in Adobe Firefly, reporting to the Head of AI/ML and Data Platforms as a member of staff. You will partner with the Director of ML Engineering who is responsible for our platform engineering resources to unlock step function changes in training and inference speed/scale for all our ML workloads.

This opportunity will not only enable you to make real world impact by optimizing ML workloads running on tens of thousands of GPUs, but also will enable you to have the opportunity to publish relevant work as either open-source or as technical publications in major conferences. The role involves hands on impact on all ML platforms powering inference, training, and data, as well as guiding the platform strategy towards higher scale and faster execution areas.

We also expect you to contribute to hiring critical talent, building and enhancing relationships with Adobe research and Adobe product teams, investing in major new initiatives in emerging technologies, and communicating goals and breakthroughs to senior leadership, to Adobe, and Adobe's customers. The role requires experience guiding highly motivated world-class ML practitioners towards ambitious goals, generating original intellectual property, and creating real-world impact.

What you'll do

  • Help drive ML Platform technical roadmap and Strategy.
  • Lead and mentor highly motivated ML GPU optimization engineers/scientists.
  • Write efficient forward and backward passes in CUDA/CuTe.
  • Write optimized custom layers inPytorch.
  • Optimize ML training and inference code for large, distributed training/inference with FP8.
  • Quality and performance analysis between data types such as BF16 and FP8 for large deep learning models.
  • Understand and optimize H100 GPUs.
  • Architect broader, end to end optimized training and inference code and schemes withPytorchforlarge, distributedmodels.
  • Write high quality, product level code that is easy tomaintainand test following standard methodologies.

What you'll need to succeed

  • Proficiencyin at least two of: Linux, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes (7+yrs)
  • Expert in Python and C++
  • Expert in CUDA/CuTe, NCCL, OpenCL, Triton
  • Expert inPytorch
  • Experience with DDP, FSDP
  • A minimum of seven years of experience in distributed computing
  • A minimum of five of experience working with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with HW resource management for ML training and/or deployment
  • B.S., M.S, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, ComputerEngineeringor a related area

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world! You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. 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.

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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 positionis $205,900 -- $407,500 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.

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