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The Opportunity We're hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the workflow layer for ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
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Adobe Firefly's Generative AI Services team is seekinga Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer for our GenAI Services area. In this high-impact role, you will work with a team of talented engineers ...
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Seattle, WA · On-site
$140K - $184K/yr
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Senior AI Platform Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
$140K - $184K/yr
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Sr. iOS Engineer
$139K - $257K/yr
Experience: 5+ years in Software Engineering, specializing in mobile applications. Programming ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Sr. iOS Engineer
$139K - $257K/yr
Experience: 5+ years in Software Engineering, specializing in mobile applications. Programming ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Senior Software Development Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
$139K - $183K/yr
Adobe is a company that empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools. They are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build scalable and reliable applications ...
Senior Software Development Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
$139K - $183K/yr
Adobe is a company that empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools. They are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build scalable and reliable applications ...
It is the foundation that powers the user interface of some of the most widely used software Adobe ... We're looking for a Senior Design Engineer to work on Drover. This is a high-ownership systems role ...
It is the foundation that powers the user interface of some of the most widely used software Adobe ... We're looking for a Senior Design Engineer to work on Drover. This is a high-ownership systems role ...
Software Development Engineer, 3D Graphics
$139K - $257K/yr
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Software Development Engineer, 3D Graphics
$139K - $257K/yr
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Machine Learning Engineer
$93K - $125K/yr
Strong Python software engineering skills, including system design, clean architecture, testing, CI ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Machine Learning Engineer
$93K - $125K/yr
Strong Python software engineering skills, including system design, clean architecture, testing, CI ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Our experiences are powered solely by Adobe software, so you and your customers act as Customer ... Partner with product & engineering as they develop new product features. Enable Customer Zero pre ...
Our experiences are powered solely by Adobe software, so you and your customers act as Customer ... Partner with product & engineering as they develop new product features. Enable Customer Zero pre ...
... Adobe's platforms. This role is ideal for a technical leader who brings strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with large scale data systems, and a passion for growing high performing ...
... Adobe's platforms. This role is ideal for a technical leader who brings strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with large scale data systems, and a passion for growing high performing ...
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer 4
$118K - $163K/yr
Strong Python software engineering skills, including system design, clean architecture, testing, CI ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer 4
$118K - $163K/yr
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Platform Engineer - Adobe
Seattle, WA · On-site
... to software development processes. • Develops and implements Platform as a Service (PaaS ... or engineering specifically within the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) stack. • Hands-on ...
Platform Engineer - Adobe
Seattle, WA · On-site
... to software development processes. • Develops and implements Platform as a Service (PaaS ... or engineering specifically within the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) stack. • Hands-on ...
Required experience * 5-6 years as a web-focused software engineer, with proficiency in TypeScript ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Required experience * 5-6 years as a web-focused software engineer, with proficiency in TypeScript ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
About the Role We are looking for a senior Software Developer to own and advance our CI/CD and AI ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
About the Role We are looking for a senior Software Developer to own and advance our CI/CD and AI ... Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly ...
Software Development Engineer, 3D Graphics
Seattle, WA · On-site
$139K - $257K/yr
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Software Development Engineer, 3D Graphics
Seattle, WA · On-site
$139K - $257K/yr
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Seattle, WA · On-site
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
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Data Science Engineer
$130K - $156K/yr
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Data Science Engineer
$130K - $156K/yr
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The Opportunity The Digital Video & Audio (DVA) team in Adobe develops industry-leading software ... We are looking for a senior, hands-on engineer to own and evolve the cross-platform ...
The Opportunity The Digital Video & Audio (DVA) team in Adobe develops industry-leading software ... We are looking for a senior, hands-on engineer to own and evolve the cross-platform ...
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Seattle, WA · On-site
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Seattle, WA · On-site
They are seeking a Research Engineer to develop high-performance ML models, focusing on optimizing ... Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
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| Aspect | Adobe Software Engineer | Adobe Front-End Developer |
|---|---|---|
| Required Skills | Programming, software development, algorithms | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI/UX design |
| Work Environment | Collaborative software teams, product development | Design-focused projects, user interface implementation |
| Common Usage | Developing core Adobe products and tools | Building and optimizing user interfaces for Adobe web apps |
Adobe Software Engineers focus on developing and maintaining Adobe's core software products, requiring strong programming skills. Adobe Front-End Developers specialize in creating engaging user interfaces and enhancing user experience for Adobe's web applications. While both roles often work within the same industry and may share some skills, their primary responsibilities and skill sets differ significantly.
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$139K - $183K/yr
Full-time
Re-posted 28 days ago
Adobe rating
8.9
Based on 10 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
40th of 242 rated software companies
Job description
Firefly Boards is an AI-powered mood-boarding and ideation app that provides a non-linear infinite canvas. It enables a new generation of creatives to embrace generative AI and those who find the linear workflows of legacy software restrictive. Images and videos can be imported or generated using AI models and edited, remixed, iterated on, and organized flexibly, making it easier for artists to visualize and develop ideas on their own or in collaboration.
- Design and build the workflows that drive Boards' agentic product. Implement what the product needs, tune agent behavior for production use, and expand the agentic surface as new capabilities come online. This is the engineer who makes the workflows actually work.
- Own the gates and guardrails on long-running tasks. Design and build the safety, quality, and cost controls that wrap agent operations: when an agent can act autonomously, when it needs to pause or escalate, how it recovers from partial failure, how budgets and limits are enforced. Most production agent systems fail here; this work is what keeps Boards' from doing the same.
- Design for survivability across interruption and resumption. Build agent workflows so multi-step operations can be checkpointed, paused, resumed, and recovered cleanly across the time horizons Boards needs. Consume the contracts the platform exposes for these capabilities; the platform itself is not in scope.
- Partner with the Senior Staff engineer on shaping where the agentic product goes next. That engineer sets strategic direction; this role contributes workflow-level depth that informs what's actually feasible.
- Contribute to evaluation infrastructure for agent quality, latency, and cost. Not the primary owner, but a meaningful contributor.
- Stay current on the frontier of agentic systems and bring back what's worth adopting.
This is a senior IC role on a small, high-density team. You hold the workflow side of Boards' agentic stack and partner closely with the Senior Staff engineer who holds the platform, strategy, and AIP relationship. Your job is to build well, push back on what you see from the workflow side, and bring the depth that makes the strategy real. The team is distributed across the US and Romania with meaningful daily overlap.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- 5+ years of product engineering experience, with significant ownership of production systems
- Demonstrated recent depth in agentic systems, workflow runtimes, or comparable LLM-tool-using applications. Recency matters more than tenure here; the field is young
- Strong backend systems intuition: state management, long-running operations, recovery from partial failure, observability. Has built and operated systems with these properties, not just consumed them
- Proficient in TypeScript and Python
- Track record of writing clean, testable code and contributing to a codebase that other engineers extend
- Strong written and verbal communication. Comfortable shaping technical decisions in a team where senior peers will push back hard
- Experience with workflow orchestration runtimes for tool-using LLM applications (LangGraph or comparable)
- Experience with production LLM systems: evaluation, observability, latency and cost optimization at the workflow level
- Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent tool design patterns
- Production Kubernetes experience as a consumer of a managed platform
- Experience with real-time collaborative or multiplayer applications
- Track record of using observability and analytics data to drive engineering decisions: instrumenting systems to answer the questions that matter, then acting on what comes back
- Experience embracing AI-augmented engineering workflows and sophisticated orchestration of agents in the development process itself
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let's Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.
AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.
Expected Pay Range:
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 $173,500 -- $331,050 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $228,600 - $331,050 In New York, the pay range for this position is $228,600 - $331,050 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $218,200 - $316,000At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Adobe for All is our vision to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across our company and in our communities. We’re focused on creating a more diverse and inclusive workforce; unleashing the full potential of every employee; and driving meaningful impact for Adobe, our industry, and society at large. Creativity has the power to unite us and inspire us to change the world. Through a vision we call Creativity for All, we’re empowering millions of people of all ages and backgrounds to express themselves, reach their full potential, and share their diverse perspectives with the world. We’re committed to advancing the responsible use of technology and driving a positive environmental impact through sustainability and climate action. Our innovations are making a significant impact across AI ethics, security, privacy, trust and safety, accessibility, and sustainability.
Industry
Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software wholesalers
Company size
10,000+ Employees
Headquarters location
San Jose, CA, US
Year founded
1982