Senior Computer Scientist

About Adobe

At Adobe, we're changing the world through digital experiences. From aspiring creators to the world's largest enterprises, we empower millions of people to imagine, design, and deliver exceptional digital content. Innovation has always been at the core of Adobe, and today we're redefining the future of creativity by combining world-class engineering with the power of Artificial Intelligence.

Adobe Illustrator is the industry's leading vector graphics application, trusted by designers, artists, brands, and creative professionals worldwide. As the future of creative applications evolves, Illustrator is transforming into an AI-powered design application that combines precision vector editing, real-time collaboration, intelligent automation, cloud-native workflows, and next-generation graphics technologies.

About the Team

The Adobe Illustrator Engineering team is building the next generation of creative technology that powers millions of designers around the world.

Our mission is to modernize Illustrator's core architecture while delivering intelligent, AI-assisted creative workflows that enhance every stage of the design experience. We build scalable application capabilities that enable high-performance rendering, cloud-connected collaboration, intelligent automation, GPU acceleration, creative services integration, and agentic AI experiences across Illustrator.

Our engineering ecosystem spans modern C++ systems, cloud-native backend services, distributed collaboration infrastructure, AI-powered creative workflows, and enterprise-scale engineering systems. We are integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent automation, cloud services, and modern observability into Illustrator while maintaining the performance, reliability, security, and quality expected from one of Adobe's flagship creative applications.

We're looking for passionate engineers who enjoy solving challenging technical problems across desktop, cloud, graphics, distributed systems, and AI technologies while helping shape the future of digital creativity.

What You'll Do

• Design and build next-generation application capabilities for Adobe Illustrator across desktop and cloud environments.
• Develop scalable backend services supporting collaboration, cloud synchronization, creative asset management, and AI-powered workflows.
• Build intelligent systems that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, and modern machine learning technologies to improve creative productivity.
• Design and implement high-performance rendering, graphics, and document-processing infrastructure optimized for large-scale vector artwork.
• Develop distributed services supporting collaboration, workflow orchestration, content synchronization, telemetry, and production observability.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, Adobe Research, and cross-functional engineering teams to bring innovative creative technologies into production.
• Drive architectural modernization initiatives across Illustrator, including application evolution, cloud integration, GPU acceleration, and AI-assisted engineering.
• Build highly reliable, secure, and scalable systems that serve millions of creative professionals globally.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in Generative AI, agentic systems, intelligent automation, graphics computing, and cloud-native architectures.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software systems.
• Strong programming expertise in C++, Python, or similar object-oriented languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalable application architecture, and cloud-native application development.
• Experience developing high-performance desktop applications or large-scale backend services.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices, system design, and architectural principles.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic workflows, reasoning models, or AI-powered developer tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker, distributed services, and microservice architectures.
• Familiarity with graphics technologies, rendering pipelines, GPU acceleration, or creative application development is highly desirable.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, or similar monitoring technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills with a passion for building world-class creative software.
• Passion for shaping the future of AI-assisted creativity while delivering performant, reliable, and delightful experiences for millions of Illustrator users worldwide.

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.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

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 .