SeniorStaff Software Engineer

The Opportunity

Join Adobes Search Discovery and Content Intelligence (SDC) team where your work will directly impact millions of creative professionals and users worldwide. Our technology is fundamental to Adobes Cloud ecosystem enabling seamless access to digital assets creative content and collaborative tools across flagship products including Adobe Express Stock Photoshop Illustrator and Acrobat.

As creative workflows evolve users need intuitive intelligent ways to discover search and interact with their vast collections of brushes colors images videos documents and more. Were building the next generation of AI-powered search recommendation and assistive experiences that understand creative intent across all modalities.

What Youll Build

Youll architect and develop AI-first agentic discovery that leverage multimodal language and vision models transformers semantic conversational search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to create industry-leading creative experiences. Our work spans multi-modal understanding (text image document video) neural agents and sophisticated recommendation systems that enhance creative efficiency for designers marketers and content creators.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable fault-tolerant multi-modal and multi-lingual agentic search and recommendation systems

• Build intelligent conversational workflows that understand creative intent and context

• Architect real-time indexing infrastructure capable of handling billions of images documents videos and creative assets

• Develop high-performance REST services and APIs for seamless integration across Adobes product ecosystem

• Leverage advanced AI technologies including LLMs transformers and neural networks to power search and recommendation engines

• Implement sophisticated ranking algorithms and relevance models for creative content discovery

• Optimize search quality across multiple languages and content modalities with AB Experimentation and User Behavior analysis

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field or equivalent experience

• 8 years of software engineering experience with proven track record in large-scale distributed systems

• Deep expertise in search technologies: Elasticsearch Lucene information retrieval algorithms

• Strong background in machine learning particularly in NLP computer vision or recommendation systems

• Expertise in vector databases semantic search

• Proficiency in Java Python and modern software development frameworks

• Experience with cloud platforms microservices architecture and high-availability systems

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing conversational search workflows in creative domain

• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

• 3 years of experience working in a complex matrixed organization

Technology Stack

Core Technologies: Java Spring Boot Elasticsearch HBase Apache Storm AI/ML: PyTorch TensorFlow Transformers GPT models Sensei ML Platform Infrastructure: Vector Search SQS/HBase REST APIs Microservices Data Processing: Real-time streaming Content processing pipelines

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of creative technology used by millions worldwide

• Collaborative environment with world-class engineers and researchers

• Access to innovative AI/ML resources and Adobes extensive creative platformCompetitive compensation equity and comprehensive benefits

• Professional development opportunities and conference participation

Ready to revolutionize how creators discover and interact with digital content Join us in building the intelligent foundation that powers creativity at Adobe.