Senior Manager Engineering - Meta Factory

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Unified Platform is building the system that changes how software gets made at Adobe. A platform that understands builders' intent, breaks down complex work, executes it through autonomous agents, and improves with every cycle.

Meta Factory drives the core engineering, enabling agents to understand goals, use tools, and improve with feedback, within a platform used company-wide. We seek a senior leader to own Meta Factory execution, lead a high-performing team, and ensure scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling engineering teams delivering AI, developer platform, or infrastructure systems.
• 5+ years of people management, including 2+ years leading teams deploying AI in production.
• Technical depth in AI/ML systems, including LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
• Experience reviewing designs, evaluating tradeoffs, and mitigating production risks.
• Experience developing engineers, expanding team capabilities, and supporting growth.
• Clear communication to align stakeholders and drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for Meta Factory, including agent harness and definitions.
• Lead development of the agent harness, including runtime, tool integrations, and contexts.
• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team across functional partners.
• Design feedback systems for agents to evaluate, learn, and improve over time.
• Lead build-versus-buy evaluations across the Meta Factory stack with clear recommendations.
• Stay current with AI engineering practices and apply advances to Meta Factory.

Skills

Team leadership

AI/ML systems

LLM APIs

Cloud platforms

Architectural judgment

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Job description

The Opportunity

Adobe Unified Platform is building the system that changes how software gets made at Adobe. A platform that understands builders' intent, breaks down complex work, executes it through autonomous agents, and improves with every cycle. What this team ships multiplies across thousands of Adobe engineers, and it's the substrate the rest of Adobe's agentic efforts build on.

Meta Factory is the core of this platform. It is Adobe's Agentic Builders Experience: a model-independent system that helps agents understand goals, use tools, evaluate outcomes, and improve over time. Think of it as Adobe's company-wide version of Claude Code, optimized for Adobe's needs and operated as a platform for the whole company.

What you'll do

• Own engineering execution for Meta Factory, including the agent harness, agent definitions, execution loop, evaluations, self-improvement systems, and skills framework.
• Lead development of the agent harness, including runtime, tool integrations, context management, control mechanisms, and execution environments.
• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team that partners cross-functionally to turn strategy into prioritized, reliable, secure, and scalable execution.
• Design feedback systems that help agents evaluate their work, learn from outcomes, and improve over time.
• Lead build-versus-buy evaluations across the Meta Factory stack, with clear recommendations on where to adopt external solutions and where Adobe should build key capabilities.
• Stay current with agentic standards, model capabilities, and AI engineering practices, and apply relevant advances to Meta Factory.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience building and scaling engineering teams that deliver AI, developer platform, or infrastructure systems.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including 2+ years leading teams that deploy AI applications in production.
• Technical depth in AI/ML systems, including LLM APIs, agent frameworks, modern software engineering practices, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Architecture judgment, including the ability to review designs, evaluate tradeoffs, identify fragile agent behavior, and catch production risks early.
• Experience developing engineers, expanding team capabilities, and supporting career growth.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, align stakeholders, and drive decisions.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's 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 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're 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.

Let's Adobe together

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Expected Pay Range

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 $160,200 -- $320,000 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $221,000 - $320,000.

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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