Forward Deployed AI Software Architect

Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity Join our “DevOps for Content” revolution as we partner with global brands and agencies to transform their end-to-end creative workflows – from ideation to activation – to deliver AI-powered content services with speed, scale, and governance.

Through an AI-first experimentation approach and deep expertise in both first-party and third-party AI models, we develop new applications, platforms, and scalable patterns that unlock the GenAI-powered Content Supply Chain. We function as a continuous product innovation engine—feeding repeatable customer solutions straight into the product roadmap to accelerate product-led growth.

As a Forward Deployed AI Architect, you are a leader in the AI field. You will work directly with our top enterprise customers, providing oversight, technical vision, and leadership of forward-deployed engineering pods to launch new GenAI applications through Adobe and third-party generative models. If you thrive in start-up environments—scaling products from prototype to production, pushing innovative research into real-world use cases, and owning product & business outcomes—you’ll fit right in here!

What You’ll Do

• Lead & Advise: Coordinate multiple GenAI engineering pods, mentor forward-deployed engineers, and ensure technical excellence in every engagement.
• Define Use Cases: Collaborate with C-level customers to identify high-impact content production and activation challenges, and the GenAI solutions to solve for them.
• Architect Best-in-Market Solutions: Design end‑to‑end GenAI applications and platforms—leveraging Adobe Firefly, third‑party models, integrations with the Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM Assets, Workfront Fusion), and extensibility frameworks.
• Drive Reuse & Standardization: Design and maintain reusable frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, architecture playbooks, and modular implementation patterns to improve time to value and consistency across engagements.
• Champion AI Best Practices: Develop repeatable processes for prompt engineering, model governance, and responsible AI usage within Adobe platforms and our engagements.
• Validate & Prototype: Guide rapid prototype sprints, ensuring each proof point aligns to strategic goals and is production ready.
• Product Collaboration: Proven experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams to shape the roadmap of GenAI-first products by delivering actionable customer insights and driving alignment between user needs and product innovation.
• Drive the Feedback Loop: Participate in early-stage product betas and feature validation efforts. Champion field validated applications and use cases into the Firefly product backlog, accelerating product led innovation.
• Ensure Delivery Excellence: Embed governance, quality checks, and automation into every solution.

What You Bring

• Proven Leadership: 8+ years in solution architecture or technical consulting roles, with a track record of scaling products from concept to enterprise production.
• Full Stack Expertise: Handson experience in frontend (React.js, Next.js, Angular) and backend (Node.js, Java/Spring Boot) technologies towards the development of AI solutions.
• AI Passion: AI-native self-starter who embeds AI in your day-to-day workflows and spends your free time inventing and tinkering with the possibilities of AI. You keep ahead of market trends across third-party models, GPUs, and new AI applications.
• GenAI Mastery: Extensive hands-on experience with modern AI technologies, including: Large Language Models (LLMs) – OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, etc. || Diffusion models (Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Midjourney) || Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS), and semantic search || Fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model optimization || AI agent frameworks (AutoGen, LangChain, LlamaIndex) || Multimodal AI (text, image, video, audio processing)
• Cloud & DevOps Expertise: Proficient with core services (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation) and AI/ML tools (SageMaker, Bedrock) || Azure: Experience with compute (VMs, Functions), storage (Blob), and AI services (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services) || Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless deployments || CI/CD & IaC: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, or equivalent || Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, or similar
• Content Supply Chain Expertise: Knowledge of the marketing technology industry, creative and design production process, and content management systems as a part of the entire content supply chain.
• Adobe GenAI Fluency: Knowledge of Firefly Services APIs, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Common Extensibility Platform (CEP), Object Composite, and Experience Cloud integrations.
• Integration Mastery: Proven track record in building enterprise content and marketing workflows using headless CMS, Workfront Fusion, AppBuilder, and related tooling.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional communicator who builds trust with technical teams and C-level sponsors alike.
• Customer-Centricity: Always prioritizing the customer and their needs and expectations first in everything you do. You are outstanding at contributing to a culture of customer-centricity among your team and your extended ecosystem.
• Startup DNA: Thrives in fast paced, ambiguous environments—relentlessly seeking better, faster, more innovative ways to solve customer challenges.

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