The Role
You are the technical spine of Adobe’s ForwardDeployed Engineering org. You own system design, platform standards, and the technical relationship with our largest enterprise customers — from C‑level executives to their engineering teams. You don’t just advise; you write production code, set the architecture, and ensure every engagement builds durable capability, not throwaway consulting artifacts. You’ll work directly with global brands transforming their content supply chains with generative AI. You’ll design end‑to‑end GenAI systems — from RAG pipelines and agent orchestration to production‑grade API integrations — and establish the reusable patterns and frameworks that make every subsequent engagement faster. You are the person who ensures this org operates like a product engineering team, not a services shop. You set the technical bar for everyone around you.
What You’ll Do
- Own end‑to‑end system architecture and design production GenAI applications from prototype through scale, including data pipelines, model orchestration, API integrations, and infrastructure.
- Build the system and code it yourself, ensuring 40% of your time is hands‑on engineering.
- Set platform standards, defining and maintaining reusable frameworks, reference architectures, shared libraries, and CI/CD patterns.
- Ship production code by writing code, reviewing pull requests, and setting engineering standards.
- Interface with C‑level customers, translating business problems into technical architectures and running technical discovery.
- Earn trust with both the CTO and the engineering team.
- Drive the product feedback loop, turning field‑proven patterns into actionable product roadmap input, bridging customer reality and product strategy.
- Raise the bar by mentoring FDE engineers, defining what “great” looks like, and enforcing engineering rigor across engagements—including code quality, testing, documentation, and observability.
What You Bring
You’ve built and shipped GenAI products in production. Not demos. Not POCs that died. Real systems handling real traffic — RAG pipelines, agent workflows, model orchestration, multi‑modal processing. You can whiteboard the architecture and debug the deployment.
Deep AI/ML engineering foundation. You understand the ML behind the tools: transformer architectures, diffusion models, embeddings, vector databases, fine‑tuning, prompt engineering. You don’t just call APIs — you understand why they work and when they won’t.
Production engineering rigor. Full‑stack (React/Next.js, Node.js/Python, PostgreSQL or equivalent). Strong distributed systems instincts. You think in CI/CD, observability, error budgets, and scalable infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, cloud‑native).
AI‑native builder. You use Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or equivalent daily. You’ve built MCP servers, custom agents, or agentic workflows. AI tools are how you work, not something you’ve read about.
8+ years of shipping production software. At least 3 years building AI/ML systems. Product engineering background strongly preferred over consulting/services.
Executive communication. You can present to a CMO and pair‑program with a junior engineer in the same afternoon. Clear, low‑ego, high‑signal communication.
Startup speed in enterprise context. You’ve operated in fast‑moving environments — founded a company, been an early engineer, or led a 0‑to‑1 product launch. You don’t wait for permission.
What Sets You Apart
- Contributed to open‑source AI projects or built tools others use.
- Published technical writing (blog, talks, papers) that demonstrates depth.
- Experience with creative/content production workflows (asset management, DAM, content supply chain).
- Built multi‑agent systems or complex agentic architectures in production.
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