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.

Youll contribute directly to scaling our AI strategy by engineering reusable components optimizing agent workflows and ensuring real-world performance in production environments.

What youll 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

• 35 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. Adobes 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 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were 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.

Lets Adobe together

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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe we empower employees to innovate with AI and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where its restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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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