Adobe
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
$159K–$302K
San Jose · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- Typical background: 8–15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles; the posting emphasizes demonstrated impact over years.
- Education
- Master’s or bachelor’s in computer science or any relevant field.
About the job
Works with strategic customers to design, prototype, implement, and troubleshoot end-to-end Adobe Experience Platform solutions, while feeding customer needs back to product and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Partner with customers to understand their architectures, workflows, security requirements, and business objectives; lead technical workshops and deep-dives.
- Design scalable architectures and prototypes, troubleshoot production issues, and own technical delivery from discovery through go-live and expansion.
- Collaborate across customer, product, and engineering teams, and share field learnings to inform product direction.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated software development ability, including writing code, building prototypes, and shipping working software.
- Experience designing end-to-end architectures across products and systems, including data modeling and integration considerations.
- Strong customer engagement, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- AI fluency, including adoption of AI-assisted development tools as a standard part of execution.
Nice to have
- Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products or similar CDP, MDM, martech, or data platforms.
- Experience in regulated industries or with data governance, privacy, identity resolution, workflow orchestration, or technical strategy.
Pay
$159,200 - $301,600 annually (base salary); $208,300 - $301,600 (base salary)
Tools
AEP, RTCDP, AJO, AWS, Azure, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools in design, prototyping, and delivery; actively build toward agentic capabilities. The posting also states that AI or recording tools are not permitted during live interviews unless invited or approved in advance as an accommodation.
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