Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Marketing Analytics & Data Science

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Adobe's Growth Marketing & Insights (GMI) organization is undergoing a significant reinvention, placing agentic AI at the core of marketing workflows. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer role is central to this transformation. As a member of the AI Strategy & Innovation (AISI) team, you will be embedded within a marketing team, collaborating closely with them to understand their work and build tools and automations that revolutionize their operations. This role requires you to be both a builder and a partner, capable of rapidly prototyping solutions and incorporating feedback for continuous improvement. You will also contribute to the AISI team by sharing your work, integrating others' innovations, and helping to develop scalable playbooks and patterns. The primary measure of success is whether you improve how people work.

Requirements

8+ years of technical experience
2+ years building and deploying AI applications
Technical experience involving analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and collaboration
Expertise in AI development platforms and tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, agent frameworks, API integrations, Azure, AWS, etc.)
Expertise in Python, SQL, and at least one other common language
Hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, automations, or agentic systems that change how real work gets done
Demonstrated ability to coach or enable others, with evidence that people you worked with changed their behavior as a result
Strong communication skills with the ability to make technical ideas feel accessible to non-technical audiences
Ability to manage multiple relationships and workstreams simultaneously, meeting people where they are across different stages of AI fluency

Nice To Haves

Direct experience working inside a marketing department or marketing operations function
A background in machine learning, with demonstrated experience in building models for segmentation, attribution, clustering, and other common marketing use cases
Familiarity with Adobe's marketing technology ecosystem: Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Analytics, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Workfront, etc.
Knowledge of Adobe's Creative & Productivity product lines: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat, etc.
Experience building internal tools or playbooks that outlasted your involvement and spread beyond your immediate team
Background in consulting, solutions engineering, or client-facing technical roles where you had to earn trust quickly and deliver tangible value fast

Responsibilities

Be embedded with a marketing team, working alongside them to learn their craft.
Build tools and automations that transform the way marketing teams operate.
Rapidly prototype solutions and take immediate feedback to improve them.
Share what you build with the AISI team and incorporate what others have built into your own work.
Help establish playbooks and patterns that scale good ideas across all of GMI.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with marketers across every function.
Improve the way that someone works.