Senior Engineer, AI Foundations

The Opportunity

We're

looking

for

a

Senior

Engineer,

AI

Foundations

to

help

define

and scale the technical

foundation

for

Adobe

Express's

AI-powered

featureset.

This

is

a

se

nior,

architect-minded

engineering role focused on building the shared services, platform capabilities, and engineering

patterns that enable teams to create, deploy, and evolve AI-powered experiences with speed,

quality, and confidence.

As part of the AI Foundations team, you will work directly with AI technologies, LLM-powered

capabilities, and generative AI systems, while building the infrastructure and backend services that

make

those

capabilities

production-ready

across

products

and

teams.

This role goes beyond

individual feature delivery; it is about creating the technical backbone for AI adoption at scale,

including shared services, orchestration layers, developer workflows, and architectural standards.

You'll collaborate with engineers, researchers, designers, and product managers to turn emerging AI

capabilities into reliable product systems. The ideal candidate combines strong full-stack experience

with

deep

server-side

expertise,

sound

architectural

judgment,

and

a

passion

for

helping

organizations scale AI practices and technology thoughtfully and sustainably.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build the AI foundations platform that enables teams to integrate AI, LLMs, and generative capabilities into product experiences at scale.
• Design and develop shared backend services, APIs, orchestration layers, and platform components that support AI-powered workflows across multiple teams and applications.
• Work directly with AI/LLM technologies to support intelligent content workflows, generation pipelines,moderationandcurationsystems,andproductivity enhancingproduct experiences.
• Build robust server-side systems using Node.js, Java, or similar technologies, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Define and scale engineering best practices for AI development, including service design, evaluation workflows, observability, operational readiness, and production quality standards.
• Developsystemsthatsupportdistributedarchitectures,real-timecollaboration,and multimedia-richexperiences,especiallywhereAIcapabilitiesaredeeplyembeddedin customer-facing workflows.
• Partner across teams to increase adoption of AI platform capabilities, reusable abstractions, and engineering standards that accelerate delivery and improve consistency.
• Own projects end-to-end - from design and prototyping through implementation, testing, delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Contributetoengineeringexcellencethroughdesignreviews,codereviews,pair programming,andmentorship,helpingraisethe bar for software quality and AI-ready architecture across the organization.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significantexperiencebuildingandshippingproductionsoftwareinaproduct-focused environment, with a track record of owning complex initiatives end-to-end.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript / JavaScript and strong experience building modern web applications using technologies such as Web Components, React, ES6, TypeScript, Redux, or MobX.
• Strong experience designing and owning backend services using Node.js, Java, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience working directly with AI systems, including LLM APIs, generative AI capabilities, prompt engineering, context engineering, or AI-powered product workflows.
• Proven ability to architect and implement scalable, efficient systems in collaboration with large, cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, distributed systems, and production engineering tradeoffs.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex systems and using strong judgment to evaluate multiple technical solutions.
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with high ownership and bias for action.
• Familiarity with modern engineering tools and workflows such as GitHub, VS Code or Cursor, Bazel, and AI-assisted coding tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or scaling AI platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure used by multiple product teams.
• Experience with distributed systems and real-time collaboration.
• Experience with multimedia, content platforms, photography, animation, visual effects, or creative tooling.
• Familiarity with functional programming, state management, and immutability. Knowledge of Web APIs, WebAssembly (WASM), and modern browser platform capabilities. Bonus: experience with Python or C++ in support of AI, performance, or platform engineering work.
• Experience building or scaling AI platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure used by multiple product teams.
• Experience with distributed systems and real-time collaboration.
• Experience with multimedia, content platforms, photography, animation, visual effects, or creative tooling.
• Familiarity with functional programming, state management, and immutability. Knowledge of Web APIs, WebAssembly (WASM), and modern browser platform capabilities. Bonus: experience with Python or C++ in support of AI, performance, or platform engineering work.

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.

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