Adobe
Senior AI Systems Engineer — C++ / Applied AI
$159K–$302K
San Jose +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Jose
San Francisco
Seattle
New York
Chicago
Remote California - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Builds C++ infrastructure and production systems that integrate AI capabilities into complex software products, with a focus on reliability, safety, evaluation, and platform architecture.
What you'll do
- Design and build native C++ infrastructure, service integrations, and interfaces connecting products to AI services and workflows.
- Develop AI evaluation, observability, safety, and reliability mechanisms for production systems.
- Set technical direction and influence architecture across engineering and partner teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in C++.
- Expertise in modern C++ design, memory management, concurrency, API design, debugging, and systems-level performance.
- Experience building cross-platform software and integrating AI, LLMs, agents, or model-backed systems into production or production-adjacent software.
- Experience with mature performance-sensitive codebases, systems architecture, and testing at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience with frontier model APIs such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar systems.
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, agentic workflows, observability, or service protocols such as JSON-RPC, gRPC, WebSockets, or REST.
Pay
$159,200 - $301,600 annually (base salary); $208,300 - $301,600 (base salary); $208,300 - $301,600 (base salary); $178,600 - $258,700 (base salary); $190,200 - $275,400 (base salary)
Tools
C++, GPT, Claude, Gemini, JSON-RPC, gRPC, WebSockets, REST
AI focus
Integrates AI services, agents, and model-backed workflows into production software; builds evaluation, safety, observability, and reliability systems for AI features.
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