Senior AI Systems Engineer — C++ / Applied AI

Adobe Systems
San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, California
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Skills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Cross-functional collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead the design and implementation of AI-native systems, building C++ infrastructure that connects complex product codebases to AI-powered services, agents, and model-backed workflows. Own reliability, observability, and safety within production AI features, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team architectural decisions shaping AI-enabled product infrastructure.

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Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
2 months ago

Senior AI Systems Engineer — C++ / Applied AI

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Job Summary

Lead the design and implementation of AI-native systems, building C++ infrastructure that connects complex product codebases to AI-powered services, agents, and model-backed workflows. Own reliability, observability, and safety within production AI features, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team architectural decisions shaping AI-enabled product infrastructure.
Location: San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, California
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build native C++ infrastructure that connects complex product codebases to AI-powered services, agents, and model-backed workflows.
  • •Define clean execution interfaces, schemas, validation layers, and error-handling contracts for AI-driven actions.
  • •Create reliable bridges between product capabilities, AI orchestration systems, and backend services.
  • •Ensure AI-initiated actions behave safely, predictably, and consistently within existing product workflows.
  • •Guide long-term architecture decisions through ADRs, design documents, technical reviews, and cross-functional alignment.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in C++.
  • •Strong experience building or maintaining large, mature, performance-sensitive codebases.
  • •Hands-on experience integrating AI, LLMs, agents, or model-backed systems into production or production-adjacent software.
  • •Practical understanding of AI system failure modes (hallucination, tool-calling errors, drift, nondeterminism) and interfaces between AI and deterministic software.
  • •Experience designing and leading cross-team architectural decisions, with mentoring of senior engineers.
Experience:AIProduction systemsC++Software engineering
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationCross-functional collaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++APIsTLSObservabilityTracingSecurityCIUnit testsADRsAILLMs

Company Brief

Adobe Systems
Provides creative, marketing, and document management software and cloud services, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and the Adobe Experience Cloud, serving creative professionals, enterprises, and governments worldwide.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1982
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