Software Development Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity
Join Adobe as a Software Development Engineer and play a key role in reshaping the future ofPhotoshop Experiences. This role offers a pioneering opportunity to integrate the latest AI-powered capabilities with user-friendly interfaces, crafting autonomous systems that improve creative workflows. You'll be part of a driven team committed to innovation and quality, pushing the limits of what's achievable in digital creativity.

What you'll do

• Prototype, build, and scaleAgentic Workflows- AI-driven orchestration of tools, assets, and creative tasks - to help creators explore ideas faster, automate repetitive work, and push the boundaries of image editing.
• Help define evaluation techniques and feedback loops to optimize agent behavior and user outcomes.
• Work closely with product, research, design, and other Photoshop engineering teams to create intelligent assistants that feelpersonalized, context-aware, and seamlessly embeddedin the creative process.
• Collaborate with applied researchers and ML infrastructure teams to incorporate the most recent features into production workflows.
• Stay on top of emerging trends in AI/ML, agentic frameworks, and generative AI.

What you need to succeed

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience building production, high-quality full-stack applications
• Strong experience with modern UI frameworks (React, TypeScript, Web Components, etc.) and building REST APIs, authentication, persistence, and caching.
• Strong understanding of ML integration patterns in product environments, including LLM orchestration and inference pipelines.
• Experience with context window management, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.
• Experience applying automated evaluation strategies (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, or probabilistic feedback methods).
• Understanding of real-time inference patterns, streaming contexts, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Familiarity with agentic architectures and tools like LangChain, AutoGen, or similar orchestration frameworks.
• Comfort balancing brand-new AI capabilities with user experience considerations, latency, and performance.

Nice to Have

• Up-to-date understanding of state-of-the-art AI model developments.
• Contributions to agentic toolkits, open-source LLM frameworks, or libraries.
• Bonus: experience in creative software, image/video editing, or UX for AI-driven tools.

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