3D Software Engineer, Automation
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P40EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorThe Opportunity
We are looking for a senior automation software engineer with a strong understanding of common UI toolkits, familiarity with 3D graphics applications and a deep sense of software craftsmanship to participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of our next generation multi surface collaborative 3D graphics software for the top experts across the industries we serve, including fashion, automotive, games and VFX.
We are a tight-knit team developing pioneering software and delivering robust, fast, and resource-conscious components to product teams.
Our team will closely collaborate with Adobe's UX design and research teams to turn groundbreaking ideas and technologies into shipping features.
What you will Do
- Design and implement API and automation tools to solve challenging 3D workflows
- Work collaboratively with UX designers, engineers, and researchers to architect, develop, maintain and optimize new software solutions
- Design and implement modern algorithms by writing robust, high-performance code
- Develop experiments to explore tradeoffs between various implementations
- Identify and fix application bugs and performance bottlenecks
- Review code on a near daily basis and give detailed, constructive feedback
- Work closely with many different product and teams across Adobe to integrate software across organizational boundaries
- Provide leadership to the group and mentorship to junior-level engineers
What you need to succeed
- Extensive experience in writing production code
- Deep knowledge of C++ (C++17 preferred) and its design patterns (10+ years desirable)
- Experience writing production-level python (5+ years desirable)
- Mastery in API design
- Extensive experience in designing and maintaining robust test suites
- Empathy for users of the tools and APIs you will develop
- Experience writing cross-platform code
- Initiative to work independently and thinking creatively
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail
- Experience in profiling, debugging, and testing native applications in at least one language
- Experience with optimization and profiling tools
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience or education
Desirable expertise:
- Universal Scene Description (USD) API and frameworks
- Qt and/or QtQuick application frameworks
- ImGui framework
- Experience in integrating AI models in products
- Familiarity with 3D content creation tools (e.g., Blender, Cinema4D, Maya)
- CMake, vcpkg or other build systems and dependency managers
- Experience in one or more scripting languages beside python
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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 $133,900 -- $242,000 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.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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Massachusetts:
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