What is it like at Adobe Research?
Specifically being a Research Engineer for the Creative Intelligence Labs? What is expected of the engineering (not scientist) roles both in interview and actual team role? Is Paysa correct in the kind of pay expectations?
Agreed. In general a "research engineer" role is primarily streamlining "Tech Transfer," turning research output into products and product features. See: AE Warp Stabilizer, AE Character Animator, Photoshop Content-Aware Anything. Adobe Research is one of the best research labs in the industry, consistently publishing scores of papers at SIGGRAPH/CVPR/etc. Pay attention to the people you interview with as they will be most likely your collaborators and you can look at their published research. Also, there's at least one annual retreat at a schmancy location. The expectation will be that you're relatively senior, enough to do complex development on your own initiative, and comfortable with the maths involved in published research. At Apple this would be at a minimum an ICT4 role.
What's your background? Are you more from a research background in graphics, vision, etc? I know some of the teams at Adobe reasonably well and worked at Adobe in the past. As an engineer, one of the focus will be productizing the research work done in Creative Tech Lab (I.e. convert the SIGGRAPH, CVPR papers into features in product). Overall it's a good place to work with nice colleagues.
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