Staff Design Engineer

Staff Experience Developer

Our company is changing the world through digital experiences. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The Design Prototyping Team drives the development of novel and innovative user experiences across all of Adobe's products. We help designers explore user experiences for features, or assist in the product discovery phase through rapid experimentation and exploration via prototypes. We are a unique team that sits at the intersection of design and engineering. We work during the early product stages to craft fun and intuitive user experiences. We believe in building outstanding user experiences in collaboration with designers and user researchers. You will build new and innovative web prototypes geared towards our customer's unique needs, test and refine those in collaboration with user researchers and product teams. You will work with developers and designers in a highly agile and fun environment to quickly iterate on products, helping increase our customers' efficiency as well as amplify their creativity. We are seeking a Staff Experience Developer to steer prototyping on projects exploring Generative AI and/or Large Language Model(LLM) integrations. A good blend of design and engineering skills preferred. We require hands on engineering experience with a proven track record of solving critical engineering problems. You are also passionate about design, and obsessed with solving user experience problems through code. You will need strong interpersonal skills, great collaboration and communication skills, and be someone who can lead by example and can influence for success. This is a chance to create a huge impact in an extraordinary team. Join us!

What you'll do:

• Work with Designers and PM's to help define prototyping and learning requirements
• Help validate or invalidate ideas through rapid prototyping and demos
• Explain trade-offs of technology decisions to a non-technical audience
• Be comfortable standing up quick web prototypes, and comfort learning and working from production code bases
• Solve existing problems with upcoming GenAI and LLM technologies
• Help designers gain familiarity with AI assisted design and coding tools

What you need to succeed:

• Must-haves: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience, 8-10+ years of relevant experience in industry, excellent understanding of javascript, and a proven track record of building compelling web applications, strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills required, experience developing with React, Web components with Lit and other modern web libraries, experience in building web apps that use third party REST APIs, experience building LLM powered applications, and familiarity with the generative AI landscape, familiarity with AI assisted coding tools like Cursor or Copilot
• Excellent communication, relationship skills and a strong team player
• Nice-to-haves: Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools-Hugging Face, PyTorch,Stability.ai APIs, experience with canvas drawing apps, experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure or equivalent preferred, familiarity with or interest in Adobe's creative (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), document (Acrobat, PDF), and/or Experi