Staff Design Engineer

Adobe Systems GmbH; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe's Design Prototyping Team seeks a Staff Experience Developer. This role involves crafting innovative web prototypes, collaborating across teams, and engaging in projects focused on Generative AI and LLM. You will utilize your development and design skills in a dynamic environment, making a significant impact on user experiences across Adobe's diverse product suite.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation days

401k matching

Educational reimbursement

Childcare assistance

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of relevant experience in industry.
• Proven track record of solving critical engineering problems.
• Familiarity with AI assisted coding tools like Cursor or Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers and PMs to define prototyping requirements.
• Build and validate web prototypes quickly.
• Explain technology trade-offs to non-technical audiences.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

React

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Job description

JOB LEVEL

P50

EMPLOYEE ROLE

Individual Contributor

The opportunity

The Design Prototyping Team drives the development of novel and innovative user experiences across all of Adobe’s products. We help designers explore user experiences for features, or assist in the product discovery phase through rapid experimentation and exploration via prototypes.

We are a unique team that sits at the intersection of design and engineering. We work during the early product stages to craft fun and intuitive user experiences. We believe in building outstanding user experiences in collaboration with designers and user researchers. You will build new and innovative web prototypes geared towards our customer’s unique needs, test and refine those in collaboration with user researchers and product teams. You will work with developers and designers in a highly agile and fun environment to quickly iterate on products, helping increase our customers’efficiency as well as amplify their creativity.

We are seeking a Staff Experience Developer to steer prototyping on projects exploring Generative AI and/or Large Language Model(LLM) integrations. A good blend of design and engineering skills preferred. We require hands on engineering experience with a proven track record of solving critical engineering problems. You are also passionate about design, and obsessed with solving user experience problems through code. You will need strong interpersonal skills, great collaboration and communication skills, and be someone who can lead by example and can influence for success. This is a chance to create a huge impact in an extraordinary team. Join us!

What you’ll do

• Work with Designers and PM’s to help define prototyping and learning requirements

• Help validate or invalidate ideas through rapid prototyping and demos

• Explain trade-offs of technology decisions to a non technical audience

• Be comfortable standing up quick web prototypes, and comfort learning and working from production code bases

• Solve existing problems with upcoming GenAI and LLM technologies

• Help designers gain familiarity with AI assisted design and coding tools

What you need to succeed

Must-haves:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

• 8-10+ years of relevant experience in industry

• Excellent understanding of javascript, and a proven track record of building compelling web applications

• Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills required

• Experience developing with React, Web components with Lit and other modern web libraries

• Experience in building web apps that use third party REST APIs

• Experience building LLM powered applications, and familiarity with the generative AI landscape

• Familiarity with AI assisted coding tools like Cursor or Copilot

• Excellent communication, relationship skills and a strong team player

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools–Hugging Face, PyTorch,Stability.ai APIs

• Experience with canvas drawing apps

• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure or equivalent preferred

• Familiarity with or interest in Adobe’s creative (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), document (Acrobat, PDF), and/or Experience (Analytics, AEM, etc,)tools

Why you’ll love working here

• Collaborate with and learn from other prototypers from a wide range of backgrounds, and interests.

• At Adobe, we value the differences in others’ stories and ideas—You’ll be able to bring your authentic self to work every day.

• We offer a competitive benefits package including; unlimited vacation days,401k matching, educational reimbursement, wellness dollars, fertility benefits, parental leave, childcare assistance, gender reassignment benefits, and more!

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.

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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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