Senior Applied ML Engineer, Search & Relevance

Adobe Fonts helps millions of creatives find and use the right type. This role owns how users discover fonts — search, relevance, recommendations, and ranking — and ships it end to end. You are a software engineer first, you turn what product and design want into reliable, well-crafted production experiences, own them in production (including on-call), and apply machine learning — embeddings, ranking, relevance, fine-tuning — as a tool for delivery, not a research agenda.

• →Software engineering (your core):

- Strong software fundamentals and best practices — design, testing, code quality, code review — plus system design and production maturity (latency, scale, reliability, observability, on-call).

- Ships and owns services end-to-end; pragmatic about build-vs-buy and tradeoffs.

• →Applied ML depth in search / relevance / recommendations:

- Hands-on, working understanding of embeddings, models and fine-tuning, retrieval and ranking (ANN / vector search, learning-to-rank), relevance and search optimization, and recommendation systems.
- Solid evaluation instincts — metrics design, error analysis, offline↔online debugging — and comfort closing the loop with behavioral data (clicks, impressions, usage).
- Applies ML judgment to ship better discovery; depth without a research mandate.

- Delivery focus and product sense, end-to-end ownership, systems thinking, and cross-functional execution with product and design.

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