Staff Design Engineer, Insights

Adobe Systems
Shasta, CA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$208,300.0 - $301,600.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Adobe InDesign Artificial Intelligence Software as a Service Data Visualization Large Language Models Build Management Adobe Tools for Reporting

Job description

  • Architect & build internal tools, agentic utilities, and workflow infrastructure that streamline how our design team operates. You’ll be reducing friction, eliminating repetitive work, and letting designers focus on what they’re best at & where they can make the biggest impact on the user experience. You’ll identify leverage points in our workflows and build toward them, with the goal that the tools you build outlast your involvement and spread beyond our immediate team.
  • Create the future by helping our innovative team accelerate our learnings and “fail fast.” Design and build high-fidelity, functional prototypes in LLM-powered applications that allow our design team to pressure-test assumptions, explore AI-powered interactions, and validate experiences before they reach production-scale engineering.
  • Develop a shared prototyping toolkit & end-to-end processes that our design team, and our business partners, can use to democratize building within our specific Insights environment. Evaluate scaling this work to support composable systems & components for insight-driven product experiences more broadly across Adobe.
  • Raise the bar on craft by bringing finesse-level quality to the insight experiences we ship. Close the gap between design intent & technical implementation by partnering with production engineers to ensure our emerging development processes are architected, from the ground up, to deliver high-quality UX.

Requirements

  • You bring a growth mindset to everything. You’re genuinely energized by how product design is evolving. You bring curiosity, continuous learning, and a maker’s mindset to your work. You’re comfortable exploring and experimenting. You have a bias to action.
  • 10+ years of experience at the intersection of design & engineering
  • Hands-on experience building & shipping LLM-powered apps, automations, or agentic systems
  • A body of work (production-level shipped product) demonstrating quality & attention to detail
  • Experience in design organizations & an understanding of what it takes to earn designers’ trust

What may help you thrive

  • You have a track record in building libraries, frameworks, or internal tools that designers and/or engineers adopt and extend, with evidence that the systems you left behind kept working.
  • A background working in enterprise product development/SaaS environments
  • Experience building data & analytics tools, or with data visualization libraries (Vega, D3)
  • Experience building systems for communication & collaboration
  • Multi-surface/platform thinking, particularly at enterprise scale

Benefits & conditions

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 $159,200 – $301,600 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 $208,300 - $301,600

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.

About the company

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 GenStudio 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.

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create., At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

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