Software Development Engineer

JOB LEVEL
P40
EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual Contributor

The Opportunity

The Assets and Collaboration pillar builds core capabilities in Adobe Express that help people build, coordinate, reuse, and collaborate on content. Our work spans asset management, brand consistency, reusable design systems, and shared creative workflows.

Within this group, the Adobe Express Branding team helps people build content that consistently reflects their brand. We develop tools that understand a brand’s identity and make its colors, fonts, assets, and design elements readily available while people build.

You’ll resolve engineering tasks across web applications, services, and AI-enhanced experiences for customers ranging from small businesses to large organizations. It’s an exciting time to influence how AI can improve interactions with brands in Adobe Express!

What You’ll Do

• You’ll build and deliver customer-facing features for branding, asset management, and collaboration. These include automated brand extraction, on-brand defaults, reusable design elements, and applying brand styles across content.
• A key part of the role is developing AI and LLM-powered experiences. You will explore different approaches and test them using real use cases. You will also establish methods to measure output quality through structured outputs, validation, evaluation datasets, and metrics.
• You’ll own projects from technical development through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch improvements. You’ll collaborate with engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers to make technical and product decisions.
• You’ll also contribute to frontend and backend architecture, review code, assess new ideas, and help operate the services you develop. Performance, reliability, security, privacy, and maintainability are important parts of the work, particularly for enterprise customers.

What You Need to Succeed

• We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of software development experience building and shipping production web applications.
• Strong frontend engineering skills are important, including TypeScript, modern JavaScript (ES6+), React, and Web Components, along with technologies such as Node.js and npm. Familiarity with MobX or LitElement is useful.
• You should understand modern browsers and web applications beyond the framework level, including browser APIs, JavaScript engines, rendering, Shadow DOM, Service Workers, CDNs, CSS, and web performance. Experience crafting or owning backend services using Node.js, Java, or similar technologies is valuable.

AI and LLM Development

• You should have hands-on experience developing or integrating AI or LLM-powered features in production and understand how to make these capabilities measurable and dependable.
• Useful knowledge includes timely engineering, structured outputs, context management, output validation, LLM evaluation methods, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You should be comfortable experimenting, identifying failure cases, interpreting results, and communicating technical uncertainty.
• Turning promising AI ideas into dependable customer experiences is an important part of this role!

Working With Customers and Teams

• You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and groups supporting enterprise customers. Clear communication and the ability to explain technical tradeoffs are important.
• We value engineers who can make practical decisions involving security, privacy, performance, brand governance, and delivery risk while keeping customer needs in focus.
• If you enjoy combining web engineering with practical AI development and want to make branding easier for creators and organizations, we’d love to hear from you!

Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $139,000 -- $257,550 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California :

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Internal Opportunities

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At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

Let’s Adobe together

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