Applied AI Engineer

The Opportunity We are looking for a hands-on AI Agent Engineer to develop, build, and maintain intelligent agents that drive automation and business impact across the enterprise. This role is responsible for the full lifecycle of agent development — from design to versioning, orchestration, and continuous learning. You’ll contribute directly to scaling our AI strategy by engineering reusable components, optimizing agent workflows, and ensuring real-world performance in production environments. What you'll Do A core aspect of this role involves building scalable Agentic AI platforms that empower developers, significantly enhance engineering efficiency, and accelerate AI adoption across the organization. Create reusable agent templates and modular components to accelerate deployment across business units Productionize AI models from prototypes to production-ready systems. Develop autonomous agents and skills for tasks like code generation and tool calling. Optimize model performance, reduce latency, and improve reliability. Implement prompt engineering strategies, memory handling, resource management and tool-calling integrations. What you need to succeed 3–5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering and backend development Prior exposure to LLM APIs or AI-powered services in production Experience with AI tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or vector databases. Ability to measure and improve model solve rates and accuracy. Strong engineering fundamentals (Python, REST) Experience with event streaming (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis, or similar) and data pipelines (Spark, Databricks, or comparable). Familiarity with production operations: Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), REST APIs, Python, and containerization (Docker, K8s) 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. 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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 position is $114,100 -- $214,950 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $148,500 - $214,950 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. 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