Adobe
Sr. Director, Engineering, Adobe Intelligence Platform
$209K–$429K
San Jose +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Jose
New York - Experience
- 12+ years of engineering experience; includes significant time leading engineering organizations through ambiguity and change.
About the job
Leads the engineering vision, organization, and adoption of Adobe Intelligence Platform, an AI infrastructure platform for agentic experiences across Adobe products.
What you'll do
- Set engineering strategy and roadmaps for platform capabilities, and integrate them into web, desktop, and mobile products.
- Build and develop the engineering organization; establish operating rhythms and drive cross-company platform adoption.
- Partner across Research, Design, Product, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Legal to bring applied AI to production with enterprise governance.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including significant time leading engineering organizations through ambiguity and change.
- Direct experience building platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams.
- Working fluency in AI/ML systems, including evals, context management, and model gateways; technical depth with agentic frameworks and operating them at scale.
- Track record of building or substantially reshaping an engineering organization, including hiring, team structure, and leadership development.
Pay
$209,300 - $429,350 annually (base salary); $276,200 - $429,350 (base salary) in California; $276,200 - $429,350 (base salary) in New York
Tools
AI/ML, agentic frameworks, model gateways, knowledge graph services, memory systems, AI registries, agentic orchestration, skill catalogs
AI focus
Owns engineering strategy and execution for an AI infrastructure platform, including agentic orchestration, model gateways, knowledge graphs, memory, and applied AI production systems.
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