Senior Engineering Manager, Applied Research - Express AI Foundations

The Prospect

Adobe Express enables everyone — individuals and large organizations alike — to produce impressive content effortlessly. The AI Foundations team builds the flexible, scalable AI framework that powers creativity at scale across design, imaging, motion, and personalization. The AI Foundations group sits at the core of this vision, driving innovation to make Adobe Express smarter, faster, and more adaptive

We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead and grow the Machine Learning team in India, bringing the latest and greatest from the existing literature into our AI stack spanning Agentic AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI, while developing the team members who help us deliver these artifacts.

What You'll Do

Technical direction and delivery
Drive ML projects involving building innovative machine learning models that drive Agentic and other Generative AI scenarios for Adobe Express.
Own the ML lifecycle—from ideation and prototyping to evaluation and deployment.




Contribute to foundational AI systems for orchestration, layout automation, image generation, and motion storytelling.
Define and implement evaluation strategies using a combination of automated metrics, LLM based judges, and user feedback.
Be a technical leader withing the wider Express AI Foundations leadership, helping to make the right technical investments.

Cross-functional partnership
Collaborate with other cross-geo ML teams within Express to drive innovation and alignment.
Align with Engineering and PM partners to ensure product focus.
Drive collaboration with Adobe Research to translate ideas into production-ready capabilities.

Team leadership and people development
Lead and mentor a team of 5 - 6 ML engineers, providing technical direction and encouraging a solid culture of innovation and experimentation.
Drive a robust hiring bar — own the full recruiting lifecycle for your

📌 Senior Manager Bengaluru
🏢 Adobe
📍 Bengaluru