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Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer

Adobe
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Feb 2026
💰 $301,600/yr($159,200/yr$301,600/yr)

About the role

The Opportunity  

Join our Customer Innovation revolution as we partner with global brands in building software and AI-powered services that generate true value, guided by customer usage and author-centric simplicity. As part of the AEM Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE) team, you’ll play a critical role in evolving the Adobe Experience Manager product. 

What You’ll Do 

  • Collaborate & Innovate: Demonstrate your strong customer leadership experience, hands-on AEM expertise, Engineering savvy, and AI-first mentality, to develop innovative core product features that solve real customer needs and demonstrate measured value.  

  • Envision: Through your deep understanding of a customer’s business use cases and value metrics, you will build upon the latest AEM technologies and early access features to discover new opportunities to drive measurable value.  

  • Iterate & Experiment: Apply an AI-first experimentation mentality to rapidly iterate on technical proof-of-concepts, assessing and validating business value outcomes.  

  • Lead by Example: Work across product area boundaries to bring the best of Adobe to the customer. Create and share knowledge to scale expertise across the AEM community both internally and externally. 

  • Code: This is a hands-on enterprise software development role. Join us to build the future of AEM! 

What You Bring 

  • Engineering Technical Depth: Degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field along with 15+ years of proven hands-on experience with full-stack software development. 

  • AEM Expertise: Confirmed expertise with sophisticated Adobe Experience Cloud implementations and enterprise customer use cases, with specific experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, including Edge Delivery Services. 

  • AI Focus: Strong experience with AI experimentation and solutions. AI is embedded in your day-to-day, as you invent and tinker with the possibilities of AI in your free time. You keep ahead of market trends across third-party models, GPUs, and new AI applications. 

  • Customer Centricity: Passion for ensuring outstanding customer experiences and a focus on excellence and simplicity. 

  • Innovative Approach: Proven innovation mentality and track record of driving creative solutions to increase value realization. Ability to spot industry trends and evaluate complementary technologies, combined with the flexibility to incorporate external innovations into Adobe’s products. 

  • Executive Presence: Ability to communicate technical and business concepts to audiences of varying levels of experience, background, and seniority. Consistent success influencing executive partners to drive strategy & alignment. 

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. 


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