Adobe

Forward Deployed Engineer

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5 days ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$114k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise mobile engineering teams to understand architecture, constraints, and business objectives.
  • Design and implement scalable integrations using Adobe Mobile SDKs, APIs, and cloud services.
  • Develop production-quality iOS and Android code, sample applications, SDK integrations, and reference implementations.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across mobile applications, backend APIs, authentication, networking, and SDK behavior.
  • Lead architecture workshops, implementation reviews, and technical deep dives with customer engineering organizations.
  • Translate customer feedback into product improvements in collaboration with Product Management and Engineering.
  • Prototype AI-powered mobile experiences using LLMs, on-device intelligence, and Adobe AI capabilities.
  • Help customers adopt observability, testing, release management, CI/CD, and mobile performance optimization practices.

Requirements

  • 6–12 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in iOS with Swift or Objective-C, or Android with Kotlin or Java.
  • Experience integrating complex mobile SDKs into production applications.
  • Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and backend services.
  • Strong understanding of mobile architecture, application lifecycle, networking, security, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale mobile applications.
  • Preferred experience with enterprise B2B SaaS platforms, API integration platforms, identity and authentication, customer implementation, solution architecture, technical consulting, developer relations, mobile DevOps, cloud platforms, mobile analytics, push notifications, AI-powered mobile applications, LLM integration, RAG, or on-device AI frameworks.
  • Ability to lead architecture discussions while contributing hands-on engineering work and communicating with technical and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Expected U.S. annual pay range is $114,100–$214,950, with a California range of $148,500–$214,950; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
  • Eligible roles may include the Annual Incentive Plan and, for certain positions, a new hire equity award.
  • Travel to customer locations is approximately 20–40% of the time.
  • Adobe provides accessibility accommodations and equal employment opportunity protections.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle CloudiOSJavaKotlinObjective-CSwift

Categories

Forward Deployed
Adobe

About Adobe

10,000+ employees

Adobe builds software for creative work, document workflows, and customer experience used by individuals, teams, and enterprises. Its products include Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Acrobat/Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics, sold primarily via subscriptions. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ADBE.

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