Principal Scientist - Firefly Enterprise

Overview

Principal Scientist in the Firefly Enterprise team, acting as the technical anchor of a small, fast-growing team in a senior individual-contributor, player-coach role across enterprise audio/video media processing and extensibility (Figma and Adobe creative app plug-ins and agentic workflows).

What you'll do

• Own the architecture for enterprise-scale audio/video media-processing pipelines, designing for throughput, latency, cost, and operational resilience at production volume.
• Architect the extensibility platform: agentic enterprise workflows and plug-ins that expose Firefly's enterprise capabilities inside Figma and other Adobe creative apps.
• Stay hands-on by writing code, leading design and architecture reviews, and setting the engineering standards the team builds to.
• Mentor developers and specialists in machine learning, growing their technical judgment through the work.
• Play an instrumental role in hiring: interview, calibrate, and keep the bar high.
• Interface directly with customers and field/sales teams to identify real problems and collaborate across adjacent teams to shape the roadmap and deliver solutions.
• Manage collaborators and expectations across engineering, product, and the field, with clarity and follow-through.
• Leverage AI capabilities to improve both what customers get and how the team develops software.

What you'll need

• 15+ years building large-scale distributed software systems.
• Proven experience operating at enterprise scale with a deep focus on reliability and resiliency.
• Strong backend engineering in Java, Python, or comparable technologies, with a solid command of distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with at least one of the team's two domains, and the ability to ramp on the other: media processing (audio/video pipelines, transcoding, streaming, or large-scale media workflows) or extensibility (SDKs, plug-in architectures, integration frameworks, or agentic systems).
• A track record of mentoring both software engineers and machine-learning engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.
• Comfort working directly with customers and field/sales teams to translate problems into solutions.
• Strong collaborator management with the ability to set expectations and align across engineering, product, and the field.
• Excellent communication and the ability to make complex architecture legible to engineers, product leaders, and executives.

Nice to have

• Experience employing AI capabilities for both customer-facing value and internal product development.
• Familiarity with LLM application architectures, RAG, AI orchestration frameworks, MCP, or agentic systems.
• Experience building integrations or plug-ins for Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express, or comparable creative ecosystems.
• Depth in enterprise-scale media processing, namely codecs, streaming infrastructure, or GPU-accelerated media pipelines.
• Familiarity with enterprise identity, security, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source software or widely adopted developer platforms.

Details

• Location: Noida, India.
• Senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports or headcount ownership.