Adobe · 2 weeks ago
Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineering
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$148K/yr - $293K/yr
5+ years expAdobe is a company focused on changing the world through digital experiences. They are seeking a Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineering to lead and mentor a team of engineers in developing GenAI-powered solutions while ensuring engineering excellence and customer engagement.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ConsultingEnterprise SoftwareGraphic DesignImage RecognitionPhoto EditingSaaSSoftwareUX DesignWeb Design
Responsibilities
Recruit, coach, and empower a high-performing team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers (and select Forward Deployed AI Architects)
Act as both mentor and peer-level engineer—reviewing code, shaping architectures, and guiding engineers on technical depth, delivery velocity, and customer impact
Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, experimentation, and AI tinkering, ensuring the team stays at the frontier of generative AI and enterprise delivery
Develop future leaders by strengthening technical judgment, customer-facing confidence, and cross-functional influence
Sponsor and engage directly in strategic customer programs—rolling up your sleeves to design, prototype, and launch solutions and products alongside your engineers when escalations or critical milestones arise
Ensure your teams apply Forward Deployed Engineering principles: embedded collaboration, rapid prototyping, iterative feedback, and production-grade handoffs
Serve as the escalation point for technical and delivery challenges, balancing innovation with governance, reliability, and scale
Champion delivery excellence—every engagement must tie back to measurable value realization and customer adoption
Define and enforce engineering standards across pods, including CI/CD pipelines, reusable frameworks, architecture playbooks, and model governance practices
Partner with Directors of Forward Deployed Engineering and Architecture to align technical approaches across the org and codify patterns into scalable, reusable assets
Funnel field-proven innovations and best practices into Adobe Firefly and GenStudio roadmaps—ensuring product strategy is shaped by customer reality
Stay at the forefront of generative AI, creative automation, and enterprise integration—keeping your teams current and inspired
Foster internal knowledge sharing—publishing playbooks, reusable modules, and lessons learned that accelerate the entire organization
Represent your team in customer workshops, internal reviews, and external forums, showcasing the engineering craft and thought leadership of the FDE org
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software engineering, AI/ML, or technical consulting experience, with recent hands-on development in full-stack, cloud, and GenAI applications
3+ years in people management or technical team leadership, with a proven ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers and architects into top-tier technical and customer-facing talent
Direct experience with modern AI technologies, including LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama, Mistral), diffusion models (Firefly, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E), RAG pipelines, vector databases, and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen)
Strong working knowledge of Adobe Firefly APIs, Creative Cloud SDKs, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, and enterprise integration patterns
Expertise in cloud deployments (AWS, Azure), CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and enterprise-grade delivery with governance, security, and monitoring
Track record of engaging directly with enterprise customers, simplifying technical complexity, and earning trust as both an engineer and a strategic partner
Ability to cultivate a high-performance, customer-obsessed culture grounded in engineering excellence, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing
Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments; relentless about finding faster, better, more innovative ways to deliver impact for customers and scale patterns across the org
Adaptable and energized by balancing hands-on engineering with people leadership. Willingness to travel up to 30% to support customers and teams in person
Benefits
Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award
Company
Adobe
Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$2.5MKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Shantanu Narayen
CEO
Dan Durn
Chief Financial Officer
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