Adobe is hiring a Staff Engineer for its AI for Engineering team, focusing on designing and building next-generation AI systems that enhance creativity across Adobe Express. This role involves architecting scalable Agentic AI platforms to boost engineering productivity and accelerate AI adoption within the organization. Key responsibilities include defining end-to-end architecture for model orchestration, tool integration, memory systems, inference services, and real-time decision-making frameworks. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems and AI platform development, with a deep understanding of LLM behavior in production environments. Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and at least one systems language is required, along with expertise in building scalable cloud-native architectures and evaluation systems for generative AI quality. The role also emphasizes collaboration with research and product teams to integrate intelligent agentic capabilities into real-world developer experiences.
Build high-performance inference systems with guarantees on latency and reliability.
Integrate first-party and third-party models into cohesive adaptive systems.
What we're looking for
10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, AI platforms, or intelligent service architectures.
Deep understanding of LLM behavior in production environments including prompting strategies and evaluation patterns.
Strong experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, model routing strategies, and multi-model pipelines.
Hands-on designing agentic systems including reasoning loops, memory persistence, tool integration, state management.
Proven expertise in scalable, cloud-native microservices architectures with strong observability and reliability.
Experience designing evaluation systems for generative AI quality, task completion, and behavioral robustness.
Market check
Salary context
This
$211,800–$306,625
range sits above
86%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$170,850–$261,150
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$168,725–$246,150
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
Employer
About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
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$183,300–$265,350
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