Sr Design Engineer

The opportunity

The Design Technology Team empowers Adobe's Design organization through tools, services, and resources. Our mission is to find friction within the design process and optimize workflows, using technology like AI and automation to simplify processes, and building foundational services for designers and builders at Adobe.

Our team delivers solutions across the product lifecycle, from AI-assisted prototyping to deployment and hosting infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to build and scale these platforms. The role requires full-stack development, building everything from React and Web Components on the frontend to Node.js services and AI/LLM integrations on the backend. It is for someone who deeply understands what designers need and values developer experience and design system architecture.

You will collaborate closely with the team to ship production-quality tools used by designers across Adobe, integrate modern AI capabilities into workflows, build intuitive applications, and solve unique technical challenges of building tools for creative professionals.

If you love building developer/designer tools, care deeply about craft and user experience, and want to shape the future of how designers work at Adobe, we'd love to meet you.

Build Full-Stack Features for Internal Tools & Services

• Develop frontend components using React and Lit that feel polished, performant, and intuitive for designers to use
• Build backend services in Node.js to support design workflows, AI integrations, asset management, and collaboration features
• Architect and implement AI/LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face) that augment design capabilities in meaningful ways
• Write clean, maintainable, well‑tested code that other engineers can build on
• Support users with questions and problems they face using our tools

Own Technical Architecture & Design System Development

• Design and implement scalable component architectures for internal platforms, balancing flexibility, performance, and ease of use
• Build developer tooling, build systems, and documentation that make tools & workflows easy to adopt and extend
• Collaborate to translate design vision into high‑fidelity technical implementation, identifying constraints early
• Establish patterns and standards for component development, testing, and versioning

Integrate AI & LLM Capabilities

• Build integrations with AI/LLM APIs to power intelligent features in our tools
• Design prompt‑engineering strategies, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows that deliver reliable, useful results
• Optimize AI features for performance, cost, and user experience
• Stay updated on AI/LLM developments and bring relevant capabilities to the team’s products

Collaborate multi‑functionally

• Partner with designers to understand workflows and translate user needs into technical solutions
• Work with engineering partners across Adobe to integrate tools & workflows into existing products and pipelines
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions
• Share knowledge with the team and elevate engineering practices

Must‑haves:

• 5–8 years of software engineering experience building web applications and developer tools
• Strong frontend development skills with React and modern JavaScript/Type Script
• Experience with Web Components (Lit or similar) or willingness to learn quickly
• Solid backend development experience with Node.js and REST APIs
• Hands‑on experience building with AI/LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, or similar)
• Understanding of design systems and component library architecture—contributed to one before
• Experience with build tools, package management (npm), and modern development workflows
• Strong grasp of Git workflows and collaborative development practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers
• Design sensibility; understanding what makes a good user experience and caring about details

Nice‑to‑haves:

Experience with Type Script in production codebases

• Familiarity with design tools like Figma and understanding of design‑to‑code workflows
• Experience with prompt…