Adobe
Forward Deployed Engineer
$159K–$302K
Lehi · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Typical background: 8 to 12 years in software engineering, solution architecture, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering; the posting emphasizes demonstrated impact over title or years.
About the job
Embeds with strategic Adobe Workfront customers to design and deliver integrations, extensions, and production solutions, while guiding technical direction and customer adoption.
What you'll do
- Translate customer workflows and challenges into scalable designs, prototypes, integrations, and working software.
- Troubleshoot production issues and lead customer architecture workshops, technical reviews, and account delivery from discovery through expansion.
- Set technical direction, mentor pod engineers, and share customer patterns with product and engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Strong application-development skills in a modern language such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
- Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven integration patterns, and enterprise architecture.
- Demonstrated software craft, customer communication, ownership, and judgment in data models and system integrations.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to design, prototype, and deliver, and build toward agentic capabilities.
Nice to have
- Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud or Creative Cloud products, or SaaS work management, PPM, or marketing operations platforms.
- Experience building enterprise agentic or LLM-powered workflows, working in regulated industries, or driving architecture decisions.
Pay
$159,200 - $301,600 annually (base salary)
Tools
Workfront Workflow, Workfront Planning, Workfront Fusion, REST APIs, webhooks, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools as a standard part of work to design, prototype, and deliver; build toward agentic capabilities. The posting also notes experience with enterprise agentic or LLM-powered workflows as a plus.
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