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What they do

Adobe makes software for creative work, documents, and marketing. Its postings name Acrobat Studio, Express, Firefly, Creative Cloud, Experience Platform, Experience Manager, and GenStudio. The same text says more than 30,000 people work at Adobe worldwide.

What they value

• Great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.
• Every employee is empowered to make an impact.
• Adobe for All, which is the name of the company program for inclusion.
• Adobe hires for potential and perspective, not only for experience.
• People are genuinely themselves at work.
• Interviews show your own skills, so AI tools are not allowed in a live interview unless the interviewer invites them.

Where they hire

San Jose holds the most open roles. Adobe also hires in Bangalore, San Francisco, Lehi, Seattle, New York, Noida, Bucharest, London, Reading, Sydney, and Melbourne. None of the postings read is marked remote. Two legal roles offer hybrid work, one of them two or three days at home. The postings do not mention visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board is broad, and machine learning is the largest single group.

• Machine learning: engineers at levels 3, 4, and 5, staff and principal engineers, ML frameworks engineers, applied researchers, and a senior manager of applied research. Many of these roles sit in San Jose or Bangalore.
• Software engineering: Photoshop imaging in C++ and on the GPU, Android for Firefly, graph engineering, and enterprise architects.
• Product management: data platform, privacy engineering, Adobe Stock data analysis, and AI for engineering.
• Security: cloud security engineering, cyber incident response, and a manager for cyber threat research and intelligence.
• Legal and policy: commercial and licensing counsel, privacy counsel, an associate general counsel, and government relations leads for the UK and for the United States federal legislative branch.
• People, finance, and go to market: people analytics, employee relations, technical accounting and ESG reporting, account executives, and digital strategists.

What they look for

Adobe states the years of experience it wants. A digital strategy role asks for ten or more years, a UK legal role asks for six or more years after qualification, and a United States legal role asks for two to five years. Roles that touch customers ask for executive presence and for clear written, verbal, and visual communication. The AI architect role asks the candidate to design the whole system around a model, which includes tools, retrieval, memory, orchestration, evaluation, observability, and integrations, so that a solution works in production and not only in a demonstration. Several senior roles ask the candidate to mentor others and to work with limited guidance. Adobe states one interview rule in every posting: you must not use AI or recording tools during a live interview unless the interviewer invites you to.