Design Engineer, Document Foundations
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94103, USA
Listed on 2026-06-03
Listing for:
Adobe, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-03
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Job Description & How to Apply Below
The opportunity
Are you passionate about web UI design and development, solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Design Engineer to join Document Cloud Foundations and work on the design system.
Your work will ultimately benefit millions of Adobe customers - helping Adobe's designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services.
As a senior team member, you'll participate in key technical planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. Team members participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery.
What you'll do
- Lead 0→1 and iterative development of the Document Cloud design system, including architecture, components, and scalable patterns
- Drive technical direction and decision-making across system architecture, APIs, and implementation strategies
- Partner with design, engineering, and platform teams (including Adobe Spectrum) to ensure alignment, consistency, and adoption across products
- Define and promote best practices for building, testing, and consuming design system components
- Author high-quality documentation to support internal consumers
- Identify and apply AI/LLM technologies to improve developer and designer workflows, system scalability, and user experience
- Mentor engineers and designers, raising the bar for quality, accessibility, and maintainability across the system
- Influence adoption and usage of the design system across multiple teams and products
Must-Haves:
- 8-10+ years of relevant experience in industry
- Experience leading technical projects or influencing architecture across multiple teams
- Have shipped and validated production quality applications in React and Typescript
- Expert knowledge in JavaScript and CSS fundamentals and have composed applications you are proud of in modern frameworks and libraries
- Experience with git and Git Hub, the process of contributing to open source development, and performing peer code reviews.
- Experience with CSS architecture and best practices, such as pre- and post-processors, cross-browser concerns, layout, CSS custom properties, responsive design, and animation.
- Familiarity with design systems concepts such as tokens, tooling, standard methodologies, and how they integrate with product development
- Experience building libraries, frameworks, or SDKs used by other developers
- Understanding of accessibility practices (WCAG), web standards, and testing methods including unit testing and visual regression testing.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in real-world workflows.
- A pragmatic, collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment closely working with designers and engineers.
- Experience building LLM powered applications, and familiarity with the generative AI landscape.
- Experience building responsive components for mobile web
- Practice with open development, providing collaborative and detailed feedback to other team members
- Hands-on usage of build, test, and release methods; such as compilers, linting, CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques, and modern dev-ops practices
Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full-stack team includes design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences for Adobe users.
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and Gen Studio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
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