Software Development Engineer

What You’ll Do
• Define and evolve agentic architectures for real-world, production workflows
• Develop and expand sub-agents within the Adobe Express AI Assistant ecosystem
• Define success metrics, guardrails, and acceptance criteria for AI systems
• Take ideas from prototype to production; iterate quickly and harden for scale
• Balance quick testing with developing scalable, reliable systems
• Own key business metrics (quality, adoption, latency, cost), not just feature delivery
• Continuously improve agents by analyzing production data to uncover patterns, establishing evaluation pipelines, refining test sets, and running A/B experiments
• Identify drift, degradation, and failure modes; drive fixes and improvements

What You Need to Succeed
• Strong hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), including tool calling and structured outputs
• Solid prompt engineering skills, including advanced prompting and optimization techniques
• Experience crafting agent memory, context handling, and state management
• Practical experience with RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector databases
• Ability to use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) as true copilots to build and ship features end-to-end
• Experience building and deploying conversational agents or AI workflows in production
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure and deploying scalable services
• Ability to evaluate and optimize systems across quality, latency, and cost

Required Technical Skills
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong systems thinking
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar
• Strong understanding of APIs, backend systems, and distributed architectures
• Experience with observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to debug and monitor production systems
• Experience evaluating performance trade-offs (latency, cost, reliability)
• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and software building principles
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail

Preferred / Ideal Profile
• Experience with multi-agent systems or orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.)
• Experience decomposing workflows across agents and managing agent-to-agent communication
• Experience crafting eval systems, measuring agent quality, and catching regressions
• Familiarity with synthetic data generation and evaluation datasets
• Has built and shipped an AI system end-to-end
• Comfortable making architecture decisions with incomplete information
• Has debugged LLM issues in production (latency, cost, failures, scaling limits)
• Balances fast delivery with developing scalable, stable systems
 

About Adobe

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