Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer

Adobe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 133,900 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior AEM Engineer to join the ACE team in helping large customers adopt AI-powered Adobe Experience Manager solutions. You will guide architectural direction, collaborate with top customers, and deliver hands‑on development work that drives measurable value.

The role emphasizes AI experimentation, customer-centric outcomes, and innovative product features that scale across Adobe’s experiences platform.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field, with 15+ years hands-on experience.
• Confirmed expertise in architecting and delivering Adobe Experience Cloud implementations for enterprise customers, with AEM as a Cloud Service, including Edge Delivery Services.
• Strong experience with AI experimentation and solutions.
• Passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences with a focus on excellence and simplicity.
• Proven innovation mentality and ability to spot industry trends and integrate external innovations into Adobe’s products.
• Ability to communicate technical and business concepts to audiences of varying levels of experience, background, and seniority.

Responsibilities

• Guide: act as an authoritative technical voice with deep expertise in AEM architecture and best practices, guiding customers toward value realization.
• Innovate: collaborate with strategic customers to build innovative product features for general availability based on measurable value.
• Envision: understand customer use cases and value metrics to discover opportunities to drive measurable value with latest AEM technologies.
• Experiment: develop technical proof-of-concepts and leverage AI experimentation to assess business value outcomes.
• Communicate: engage with executive and senior client leadership to share recommendations.
• Collaborate: work across functional and product boundaries to scale Adobe’s expertise and share knowledge.

Skills

Engineering Technical Depth

AEM Expertise

AI Focus

Customer Centricity

Innovative Approach

Executive Presence

Education

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Job description

Our Company

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 our Customer Experience revolution as we partner with global brands in building software and AI-powered services that generate true value, guided by customer usage and author‑centric simplicity. As part of the AEM Co‑Innovation Engineering (ACE) team, you’ll play a critical role in evolving the Adobe Experience Manager product based on real customer needs, hands‑on collaboration, and AI‑first innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Guide: As a Senior AEM Engineer you will act as an authoritative technical voice possessing deep expertise with AEM architectural concepts and best practices, able to guide our customers towards enhancing value realization.
• Innovate: Demonstrate your strong customer leadership experience, hands‑on AEM expertise, and AI‑first mentality, to collaborate with our most strategic customers to build innovative product features that then become candidates for general availability based on measured value.
• Envision: Through engaging to deeply understand a customer’s business use cases and value metrics, you will use your knowledge of the latest AEM technologies and early access features to discover new opportunities to drive measurable value.
• Experiment: In collaboration with customer teams, you will develop technical proof‑of‑concepts and leverage AI experimentation to assess and validate business value outcomes.
• Communicate: Engage with and communicate recommendations to executive and senior client leadership teams.
• Collaborate: Work across functional and product area boundaries to bring the best of Adobe to the customer. Create and share knowledge to scale expertise across the AEM community both internally and externally.
• Code: This is a hands‑on product development role.
• Promote our solutions and guide customers to success while also building software, solving sophisticated customer problems, and making our solutions as bullet‑proof and as self‑service as possible.
• In joining a diverse, experienced and hardworking team, you will have access to an incredible pool of knowledge and resources providing you opportunities to grow your technical skills and seek new and ever‑growing challenges. Are you someone who loves a challenge, has a customer‑centric mentality, and has strong communication and development skills? If so, this might be the career choice for you!

What You Bring

• Engineering Technical Depth: Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field along with 15+ years of proven hands‑on experience.
• AEM Expertise: Confirmed expertise in architecting and delivering sophisticated Adobe Experience Cloud implementations for enterprise customers, with specific experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including Edge Delivery Services.
• AI Focus: Strong experience with AI experimentation and solutions.
• Customer Centricity: Passion for ensuring outstanding customer experiences and a focus on excellence and simplicity.
• Innovative Approach: Proven innovation mentality and track record of driving creative solutions to increase customer success and value realization. Ability to spot industry trends and evaluate complementary technologies, combined with the flexibility to incorporate external innovations into Adobe’s products.
• Executive Presence: Ability to communicate technical and business concepts to audiences of varying levels of experience, background, and seniority. Consistent success influencing executive partners to drive strategy & alignment.

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.

State‑Specific Notices:

California: Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado: There is no deadline to apply to this job posting because Adobe accepts applications for this role on an ongoing basis. The posting will remain open based on hiring needs and position availability.

Massachusetts: 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.

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