Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. seeks a senior software leader for the ACE team focused on advancing the AEM product with AI-powered capabilities that deliver tangible value to customers.

You will collaborate with global brands, guide architectural decisions, and lead cross-team efforts while contributing production-grade code to shape the future of AEM Cloud Service.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software development experience.
• Deep AEM expertise with Cloud Service and enterprise use cases.
• Strong AI experimentation experience and familiarity with AI models.
• Customer-centric mindset focused on delivering value and simplicity.
• Proven ability to influence executives and communicate complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to develop innovative core AEM features that demonstrate measurable value.
• Envision new opportunities by leveraging customer business use cases and value metrics.
• Iterate rapidly with AI-first experimentation to validate business outcomes.
• Lead by example across product boundaries and share knowledge across the AEM community.
• Code as a hands-on enterprise software developer to build the future of AEM.

Skills

AEM Expertise

Full-Stack Development

AI/ML Experience

Customer Centricity

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AEM Cloud Service

Edge Delivery Services

Job description

The Opportunity

Join our Customer Innovation 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.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate & Innovate: Demonstrate your strong customer leadership experience, hands‑on AEM expertise, engineering savvy, and AI‑first mentality, to develop innovative core product features that solve real customer needs and demonstrate measured value.
• Envision: Through your deep understanding of a customer's business use cases and value metrics, you will build upon the latest AEM technologies and early access features to discover new opportunities to drive measurable value.
• Iterate & Experiment: Apply an AI‑first experimentation mentality to rapidly iterate on technical proof‑of‑concepts, assessing and validating business value outcomes.
• Lead by Example: Work across 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 enterprise software development role. Join us to build the future of AEM!

What You Bring

• Engineering Technical Depth: Degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field along with 15+ years of proven hands‑on experience with full‑stack software development.
• AEM Expertise: Confirmed expertise with sophisticated Adobe Experience Cloud implementations and enterprise customer use cases, with specific experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including Edge Delivery Services.
• AI Focus: Strong experience with AI experimentation and solutions. AI is embedded in your day‑to‑day, as you invent and tinker with the possibilities of AI in your free time. You keep ahead of market trends across third‑party models, GPUs, and new AI applications.
• 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 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 protected characteristic.