Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$183,300–$265,350 / yr
Posted
64 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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

Adobe currently has 218 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems

As a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems, you will join a specialized team building an AI-driven development platform to transition machine learning and generative AI capabilities into production for flagship creative products. You will design, build, and operate an ecosystem of agents, orchestration systems, and evaluation infrastructure to transform research models into reliable services. Your daily work involves developing inference pipelines, creating frameworks to measure agent safety and reliability, and resolving workflow bottlenecks. The role requires expertise in LLM-driven agent architectures, RAG, and multi-tenant infrastructure on Kubernetes. You will utilize Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, and AWS to build systems that manage reasoning, tool use, and multimodal capabilities. This position addresses the technical challenge of creating the automated systems required to develop, review, and deploy AI-generated code across a complex suite of creative software tools.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build an ecosystem of agents to deploy research model specifications into production-ready services.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and infrastructure to measure agent quality, reliability, and safety.
  • Integrate new functionality with supporting platform infrastructure to improve system capabilities.
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in workflows that limit the development and deployment of AI-driven systems.
  • Define technical standards for API schemas, testing, and security for generated code.
  • Ensure all services meet production standards for observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide production support to ensure operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
  • Hands-on experience building or operating LLM-driven agents or agentic pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of agent architectures including reasoning, retrieval, tool use, and multimodal capabilities.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks to measure the quality, reliability, and safety of AI-driven systems.
  • Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent memory or session-persistence systems.
  • Strong distributed systems background including service discovery, secrets management, and multi-tenant infrastructure on Kubernetes.
  • Working familiarity with generative and computer vision architectures such as Transformers, Diffusion models, GANs, CLIP, VAEs, and MLLMs.
  • Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

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