Senior Backend Engineer Gen Ai solutions (VFX)

Our teamoperatesat the intersection of Adobes Generative AI platform and advanced creative workflows. We focus on building custom production-ready generative AI solutions that integrate naturally into modern media pipelines.

This is a highly autonomous high-impact role with visibility across Adobes product research and engineering organizations. You will help shape how generative AI capabilities are translated into practicaluser-friendly workflowsworking hands-on with node-based systems and custom tooling to solve complex creative and technical problems.

This role is well suited for someone with a strong VFX or media background who enjoys building tools extending workflows with code and exploring how generative AI can be applied in real production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design build anditerate oncustom generative AI workflows with an emphasis on node-based systems such asComfyUI.

• Rapidly prototype and refine artist-facing tools that integrate generative AI into established production pipelines.

• Write high-quality code to extend automate and operationalize generative AI workflows including scripting backend services and pipeline tooling.

• Collaborate closely with Adobe research product platform design and engineering teams to translate new capabilities into usable solutions.

• Apply production experience and VFX domain knowledge to ensure solutions align with real-world creative workflows and constraints.

• Incorporate feedback to improve usability performance and reliability of tools and workflows.

• Own solutions end-to-end from early concept and experimentation through deployment documentation and ongoing iteration.

• Contribute to engineering and workflow best practices for building scalable flexible generative AI systems.

Core Requirements

• 7 years of experience in creative tooling for VFX animation or other high-end media production with a strong understanding of production workflows and pipeline realities.

• Hands-onexpertisewith node-based generative AI systems such asComfyUIor equivalent and the ability to customize and extend them.

• Strong programming skills in Python with experience building tools services or automation for creative workflows.

• Practical understanding of diffusion-based generative models and inference workflows including quality performance andcontroltrade-offs.

• Experience integrating generative AI tools into DCC applications or pipelines (such as Houdini Nuke Maya Blender Unreal or similar).

• Experience designing building andmaintainingreliable systems in cloud or hybrid environments.

• Comfortable working in ambiguous problem spaces and rapidly learning new tools and technologies.

• Ability to work independently in a hybrid or remote-first environment while collaborating effectively across teamsand time zones.

• Clear and thoughtful communicator with the ability to bridge creative and technical perspectives.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience designing artist-friendly user interfaces or abstractions for complex technical systems.

• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud applications and extensibility.

• Background in building ormaintaininginternal tools pipeline infrastructure or workflow frameworks.

• Experience mentoring or influencing best practices across multidisciplinary teams.