Adobe

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Lehi, UT, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$159k - $302k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with strategic customers to understand workflows, systems, security requirements, and business goals.
  • Create scalable solution designs, reference architectures, and working prototypes for complex customer problems.
  • Build and ship custom integrations and extensions across Workfront Workflow, Workfront Planning, Workfront Fusion, APIs, and Adobe and third-party systems.
  • Investigate and resolve production issues involving data models, permissions, automation, reporting, and performance.
  • Lead architecture workshops, health checks, technical deep dives, and customer briefings.
  • Prototype and iterate quickly using AI-assisted development tools and build toward agentic capabilities.
  • Feed customer and field patterns back to product and engineering teams to influence the Workfront roadmap.
  • Mentor engineers in the customer pod and establish practices for documenting technical decisions and learnings.
  • Own the technical relationship with assigned accounts from discovery through go-live and expansion.

Requirements

  • Typically 8 to 12 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering.
  • Demonstrated customer empathy, senior-level ownership, clear communication, business acumen, and ability to explain complex concepts to technical and executive audiences.
  • Hands-on software development experience building prototypes and shipping working software.
  • Strong judgment in data models, API design, and system integration.
  • Experience with Workfront or comparable work management platforms and enterprise workflow environments.
  • Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, and workflow orchestration or low-code tools such as Workfront Fusion.
  • Enterprise architecture experience involving multi-system integration, SSO and identity, data flows, and API design.
  • Strong skills in a modern language such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
  • Experience with AWS or Azure and reporting and analytics pipelines.
  • Understanding of enterprise permissions, data privacy, security, and regulated-industry constraints.
  • Ability to use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
  • Preferred experience with Adobe Experience Cloud, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Manager Assets, Workfront Planning, Adobe GenStudio, SaaS work management, PPM, marketing operations, agentic or LLM-powered enterprise workflows, or regulated industries.
  • Preferred track record of driving architecture decisions at team or organization level.

Benefits

  • U.S. pay range of $159,200 to $301,600 annually, varying by geographic market, location, knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Non-sales roles may receive short-term incentives through Adobe’s Annual Incentive Plan and may be eligible for long-term new-hire equity awards.
  • Work is organized in autonomous, cross-functional Customer Pods embedded with strategic accounts.
  • The role is based in or connected to Adobe’s Lehi engineering community.

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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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