Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Company Overview

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Join Adobe's Search, Discovery and Content Intelligence (SDC) team, where your work will directly impact millions of creative professionals and users worldwide. Our technology is fundamental to Adobe's Cloud ecosystem, enabling seamless access to digital assets, creative content, and collaborative tools across flagship products including Adobe Express, Stock, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe.com, and Acrobat.

As creative workflows evolve, users need intuitive, intelligent ways to discover, search, and interact with their vast collections of brushes, colors, images, videos, documents, and more. We're building the next generation of AI‑powered search, recommendation, and assistive experiences that understand creative intent across all modalities.

What You'll Build

You'll architect and develop AI‑first agentic discovery that leverages multimodal language and vision models, transformers, semantic conversational search, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to create industry‑leading creative experiences. Our work spans multi‑modal understanding (text, image, document, video), neural agents, and sophisticated recommendation systems that enhance creative efficiency for designers, marketers, and content creators.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault‑tolerant multi‑modal and multi‑lingual agentic search and recommendation systems
• Build intelligent conversational workflows that understand creative intent and context
• Architect real‑time indexing infrastructure capable of handling billions of images, documents, videos, and creative assets
• Develop high‑performance REST services and APIs for seamless integration across Adobe's product ecosystem
• Leverage advanced AI technologies including LLMs, transformers, and neural networks to power search and recommendation engines
• Implement sophisticated ranking algorithms and relevance models for creative content discovery
• Optimize search quality across multiple languages and content modalities with AB experimentation and user behavior analysis

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Technology Stack

Core Technologies : Java, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, HBase, Apache Storm. AI / ML : PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, GPT models, Sensei ML Platform. Infrastructure : Vector Search, SQS / HBase, REST APIs, Microservices. Data Processing : Real‑time streaming, content processing pipelines.

What We Offer

Ready to revolutionize how creators discover and interact with digital content? Join us in building the intelligent foundation that powers creativity at Adobe.

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 $162,000 – $301,200 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.

State‑Specific Notices

California

Fair Chance Ordinances : Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Colorado

Application Window Notice : 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

Massachusetts Legal Notice : 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.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.

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