Senior Application Engineer, 3D

Adobe Inc.; California, San Jose (MO, CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering team at a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming digital experiences. As a senior application software engineer, you'll leverage your extensive expertise in C++ and Python to design and deploy cutting-edge 3D graphics software. This role requires collaboration with talented UX designers and researchers, ensuring that innovative ideas are translated into impactful features. Your contributions will directly influence industries like fashion, automotive, and gaming, allowing you to leave a mark on the future of digital interaction. If you're passionate about software craftsmanship and eager to mentor others, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in C++ and software craftsmanship.
• 5+ years of production-level Python experience.
• Strong communication skills and empathy for users.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with UX designers and engineers to develop software solutions.
• Design and implement algorithms with high-performance code.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide leadership within the team.

Skills

C++

Python

API Design

Cross-platform Code

Debugging

Profiling

User Empathy

Software Craftsmanship

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenGL

DirectX

Vulkan

Metal

Qt

Blender

Cinema4D

Maya

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

We are looking for a senior application software engineer with a strong understanding of common UI toolkits, graphics applications and a deep sense of software craftsmanship to participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of our next generation multi surface collaborative 3D graphics software for the top experts across the industries we serve, including fashion, automotive, games and VFX.

We are a tight-knit team developing pioneering software and delivering robust, fast, and resource-conscious components to product teams. The team will closely collaborate with Adobe's UX design and research teams to turn groundbreaking ideas and technologies into shipping features.

What you will Do

• Closely interact with select users to present prototypes and understand their needs
• Work collaboratively with UX designers, engineers, and researchers to architect, develop, maintain and optimize new software solutions
• Design and implement modern algorithms by writing robust, high-performance code
• Develop experiments to explore tradeoffs between various implementations
• Identify and fix application bugs and performance bottlenecks
• Review code on a near daily basis and give detailed, constructive feedback
• Work closely with many different product and teams across Adobe to integrate software across organizational boundaries
• Provide leadership to the group and mentorship to junior-level engineers

What you need to succeed

• Extensive experience in writing production code
• Deep knowledge of C++ (C++17 preferred) and its design patterns (10+ years desirable)
• Experience writing production-level python (5+ years desirable)
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Empathy for users of the tools you will develop
• Experience in API design
• Experience writing cross-platform code
• Initiative to work independently and thinking outside the box
• Experience in profiling, debugging, and testing native applications in at least one language
• Experience with optimization and profiling tools
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience or education

Desirable expertise:

• Universal Scene Description (USD) API and frameworks
• Modern graphics APIs (OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal)
• Qt and/or QtQuick application frameworks
• ImGui framework
• Experience in integrating AI models in products
• Familiarity with 3D content creation tools (e.g., Blender, Cinema4D, Maya)
• Familiarity with principles of lighting and photography
• Experience in one or more scripting languages beside python
• Experience working with enterprise, film or game asset pipelines

#C++

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 positionis $153,600 -- $286,600 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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