Senior Engineer, AI Edge

Adobe•San Jose, CA

15h

About The Position

Adobe’s AI Edge team builds foundational capabilities for the next generation of creative agents. We work ahead of the production roadmap, turning promising but unreliable AI workflows into practical technology that will support products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Express, and Firefly. You will join a small, fast-paced team with diverse skills in AI, systems, product, and prototyping. Your role will involve exploring new ideas, building working prototypes, evaluating their effectiveness, and partnering with product teams to advance successful experiments. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and enjoys making emerging technology tangible.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and shipping real systems.
Hands-on experience with LLM-powered applications or agentic systems, such as tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, model APIs, or evaluation.
The ability to turn an ambiguous idea into a working prototype quickly and improve it through feedback.
Comfort working across different parts of a system rather than staying within a narrow specialty.
Clear communication, sound technical judgment, curiosity, and a practical approach to experimentation.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field or specific skills such as agent frameworks, distributed systems, or creative tools.

Responsibilities

Prototype agentic AI capabilities for creative workflows, from early concept through technical validation.
Build components for agent planning, tool use, orchestration, streaming, state management, and evaluation.
Build reusable platform interfaces that can work across different Adobe products and creative surfaces.
Turn new capabilities into focused, credible prototypes that help teams test assumptions and make decisions quickly.
Measure quality and reliability to distinguish a compelling demo from a capability ready for broader investment.
Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, designers, researchers, and product managers, then help production teams adopt the ideas that prove valuable.