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Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems

Adobe

San Jose, US$183k – $265konsite

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About this role

The Opportunity      

Adobe is looking for a   Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Systems)   to help build an AI-driven development platform that moves new AI/ML and Generative AI capabilities from research into production across Adobe's flagship creative products. In this role, you will design and build the agents, orchestration systems, and evaluation infrastructure that translate   cutting-edge   research models and specifications into reliable, production-ready services — partnering closely with Adobe Research, product engineering, and platform teams.   

You will join a team responsible for the ML cloud services that power features used daily by millions of creators across products like Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, Stock, and enterprise surfaces. This is a hands-on senior IC role defining a new engineering discipline — building the systems that build software — with direct impact on how quickly AI capabilities reach customers.  

The Team  

Our team includes dedicated   machine learning,   software , ml- ops   and   dev -op s   eng ineers from a diverse set of backgrounds who are encouraged to bring their experience, ideas, and creativity to produce the best possible outcomes. We o perate   with ag ility and learn from failure. The highly dynamic environment allows us to grow while we add new value and deliver impactful results. As a member of the team, you will interact with others who are genuine and want you to succeed. Your talent, experience, and voice are valued and will make a difference.  

What   you’ll   do     

• Design, build, and   operate   an ecosystem of agents t o   build,   optimize ,   evaluate   and deploy   research model specifications and inference pipelines into production-ready services  

• Design and maintain evaluation frameworks and infrastructure to continuously measure and improve agent quality, reliability, and safety  

• Build or integrate required new functionality with supporting platform infrastructure  

• Identify and resolve platform and workflow bottlenecks that limit how quickly AI-driven systems and agent-generated changes can be developed, reviewed, and deployed  

• Collaborate closely with Research, Product, and Engineering partners to define the standards (API schemas, testing, security) that generated code must meet  

• Ensure services meet production standards for observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response  

• Participate in on-call and production support, contributing to a culture of   customer focused,   operational excellence  

What you need to succeed     

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, including hands-on experience building or operating LLM-driven agents or agentic pipelines — not just using coding assistants  

• Strong understanding of agent   architectures   — reasoning,   retrieval, tool use, and multimodal capabilities .    

• Familiarity with AI agent ecosystems and standards, such as MCP servers, APIs, and semantic retrieval  

• Experience designing or working with evaluation frameworks that 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: service discovery, secrets/credential management, and multi-tenant infrastructure on Kubernetes  

• Working familiarity with modern generative and computer vision architectures (Transformers, Diffusion models, GANs, CLIP, VAEs, MLLMs) sufficient to design systems that generate and validate code using them  

• Proficiency   with core technologies such as   Python,   PyTorch , TensorFlow.   Docker, Kubernetes, AWS  

• Nice to have: Familiarity with model serving and inference optimization tooling (e.g., NVIDIA Triton,   TorchServe , ONNX, CUDA) and techniques such as quantization and pruning — useful for collaborating with the team's ML engineers, though not a core requirement for this role    

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. 

Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture , focus on people, purpose and community , Adobe for All , comprehensive benefits programs , the stories we tell , the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015. 

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