Adobe

Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Creative Technologist)

$234K-$302K (Plank census) big techcreative techFirefly

Lehi, UT / San Jose, CA · Posted July 4, 2026 · Closed

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Why it's interesting

The FDE motion jumps from LLM labs to creative software. Adobe embeds engineers to wire Firefly Services and Creative Cloud APIs into clients' content pipelines — a whole creative-technologist family (IC to Manager to Lead) topping out near $302K, per the Plank FDE census (CC BY 4.0).

The role

Embedded engineer building custom plugins and integrations that put generative AI into enterprise creative workflows: Adobe App Builder, Firefly Services APIs, Creative Cloud SDK/CEP, Node.js, and Python. Part of a broader Forward-Deployed Creative Technologist family with IC, Manager, and Lead postings live simultaneously. Comp band sourced from the Plank FDE census (CC BY 4.0); confirm the level-specific band on Adobe's own posting.

Applications closed

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