Software Development Engineer
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P30EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorThe Opportunity
Join Adobe as a Software Development Engineer and play a key role in reshaping the future of Photoshop experiences. This role offers a pioneering opportunity to integrate groundbreaking machine learning 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
- Build modern, performant UI systems in collaboration with our design, ML, and core Photoshop engineering teams.
- Develop interfaces that orchestrate complex AI workflows in real-time, including LLM calls, multi-modal models, and contextual timely management.
- Architect front-end experiences for agentic interfaces, focusing on memory, decision chains, and interactive tool suggestions.
- Collaborate closely with applied researchers and ML infrastructure teams to integrate models into production workflows.
- Help define evaluation techniques and feedback loops to improve agent behavior and user outcomes.
- Stay on top of emerging trends in AI/ML, agentic frameworks, and generative UI.
What you need to succeed
- 5+ years of experience building high-quality front-end applications using modern frameworks (React, TypeScript, Web Components, etc.).
- Strong understanding of ML integration patterns in product environments, including LLM orchestration and inference pipelines.
- Experience with ML model deployment and evaluation loops (train/eval/test), fine-tuning, and timely engineering.
- Familiarity with agentic architectures and tools like LangChain, AutoGen, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Exposure to automated evaluation strategies (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, or probabilistic feedback methods).
- Knowledge of multi-modal model capabilities and how to integrate vision-language models into UI experiences.
- Comfort balancing brand-new ML capabilities with user experience considerations, latency, and performance.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning techniques in user-facing systems.
- Understanding of real-time inference patterns, streaming contexts, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Contributions to agentic toolkits, open-source LLM frameworks, or timely engineering libraries.
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California:
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Colorado:
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Massachusetts:
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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.
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