Adobe
Core Agent Engineer
$159K–$302K
San Francisco +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Jose
Seattle
New York
About the job
Build and ship Adobe’s AI-native agent across backend services, clients, and desktop, mobile, and web platforms, including its models, reasoning, production infrastructure, and quality systems.
What you'll do
- Implement full-stack agent capabilities, including model orchestration, tool use, multi-step execution, context and memory management, and platform delivery.
- Build production infrastructure and evaluation systems to make the agent scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- Advance AI-assisted engineering practices and developer experience, and collaborate across product, platform, infrastructure, data, and security teams.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, including APIs, prompt engineering, context management, retrieval-augmented generation, and production operations.
- Experience building and shipping agentic systems, including tool use, orchestration, multi-step reasoning, and memory or context persistence.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools in real development workflows.
- Full-stack engineering depth across backend services, client SDKs, and platform-specific integrations; strong production code and communication skills.
Pay
$159,200 - $301,600 annually USD (base salary); $208,300 - $301,600 USD (base salary, California); $208,300 - $301,600 USD (base salary, New York); $190,200 - $275,400 USD (base salary, Washington)
Tools
LLM APIs, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
AI focus
Build and evaluate a production agentic AI product; integrate and assess LLMs, agent reasoning, tool use, memory, and retrieval-augmented generation; use AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.
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