Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Your role in Adobe's Growth Marketing & Insights (GMI) organization is in the middle of a genuine, ground-up reinvention of how marketing teams operate. We're no longer adding AI tools to the margins—we're rebuilding workflows from first principles, with agentic AI at the center. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer role exists to make that happen.

As a member of the AI Strategy & Innovation (AISI) team, you'll be embedded with a marketing team, working alongside them, learning their craft, and building tools and automations that transform the way they operate. You are both a builder and a partner who can rapidly prototype solutions and take immediate feedback to improve them.

You'll also be part of the connective tissue across the AISI team. You'll share what you build, incorporate what others have built into your own work, and help to establish the playbooks and patterns that scale good ideas across all of GMI. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with marketers across every function and measure ourselves by this question: did we improve the way that someone works?

Traits of the successful candidate:

• Genuine excitement about what AI can do right now and what it will do next.
• An instinct for communication that runs as deep as your technical skills.
• Intense curiosity.
• An appreciation for marketing work, and many ideas on how to transform it.

Minimum requirements:

• 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years building and deploying AI applications.
• Your technical experience has involved analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and collaboration.
• Expertise in AI development platforms and tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, agent frameworks, API integrations, Azure, AWS, etc.).
• Expertise in Python, SQL, and at least one other common language.
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, automations, or agentic systems that change how real work gets done.
• Demonstrated ability to coach or enable others, with evidence that people you worked with changed their behavior as a result.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to make technical ideas feel accessible to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple relationships and work streams simultaneously, meeting people where they are across different stages of AI fluency.

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct experience working inside a marketing department or marketing operations function.
• A background in machine learning, with demonstrated experience in building models for segmentation, attribution, clustering, and other common marketing use cases.
• Familiarity with Adobe's marketing technology ecosystem:
  Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Analytics, Gen Studio for Performance Marketing, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Workfront, etc.
• Knowledge of Adobe's Creative & Productivity product lines:
  Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat, etc.
• Experience building internal tools or playbooks that outlasted your involvement and spread beyond your immediate team.
• Background in consulting, solutions engineering, or client-facing technical roles where you had to earn trust quickly and deliver tangible value fast.

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.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $125,600 -- $234,150 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $161,700 - $234,150.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.