The Opportunity Mobile experiences are often the most important touchpoint between global brands and their customers. Adobe's Mobile SDKs power personalized experiences, customer engagement, analytics, messaging, experimentation, and AI-driven interactions inside some of the world's largest mobile applications.
We're looking for experienced Mobile Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive at the intersection of software engineering, customer architecture, and technical consulting.
As an FDE, you'll partner directly with Adobe's largest enterprise customers to integrate Adobe's mobile technologies into complex iOS and Android applications. You'll help customers solve difficult implementation challenges, design scalable mobile architectures, troubleshoot production issues, and influence the future of Adobe's mobile platform through direct customer feedback.
This is not a traditional consulting role.
You'll write production-quality code, build reference implementations, prototype AI-powered mobile experiences, and work alongside customer engineering teams to accelerate successful deployments.
What You'll Do - Partner directly with enterprise mobile engineering teams to understand application architecture, technical constraints, and business objectives.
- Design and implement scalable integrations using Adobe Mobile SDKs, APIs, and cloud services.
- Develop production-quality iOS and Android code, sample applications, reusable SDK integrations, and reference implementations.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across mobile applications, backend APIs, authentication, networking, and SDK behavior.
- Lead architecture workshops, implementation reviews, and technical deep dives with customer engineering organizations.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering by translating customer feedback into product improvements.
- Prototype new AI-powered mobile experiences using LLMs, on-device intelligence, and Adobe AI capabilities.
- Help customers adopt modern mobile engineering practices including CI/CD, observability, testing, release management, and performance optimization.
- Travel to customer locations approximately 20-40% of the time.
What Success Looks Like We hire engineers who combine deep technical expertise with exceptional customer empathy.
Successful candidates demonstrate:
Mobile Engineering Excellence You have built and shipped production iOS or Android applications that serve large user bases.
Customer Partnership You enjoy working directly with engineering teams, understanding customer problems, and becoming a trusted technical advisor.
Systems Thinking You understand how mobile applications interact with APIs, identity systems, authentication, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.
Software Development
You write clean, maintainable production code-not just prototypes or proof of concepts.
Technical Leadership You can lead architecture discussions while also contributing hands-on engineering work.
Communication You explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, architects, product leaders, and executive stakeholders.
AI Fluency You actively leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, or equivalent, and understand how LLMs can enhance modern mobile experiences.
Bias Toward Action You rapidly diagnose problems, build solutions, and continuously improve customer outcomes.
What We're Looking For We're less interested in titles than demonstrated impact.
Strong candidates typically bring:
Required Qualifications
- 6-12 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in iOS (Swift/Objective-C) or Android (Kotlin/Java) development.
- Experience integrating complex mobile SDKs into production applications.
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Strong understanding of mobile architecture, application lifecycle, networking, security, and performance optimization.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale mobile applications.
Preferred Qualifications We especially value candidates with experience in one or more of the following:
- Enterprise B2B SaaS platforms
- API integration platforms
- Identity and authentication (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SSO)
- Customer implementation or professional services engineering
- AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
- Mobile analytics platforms
- Push notifications and messaging platforms
- AI-powered mobile applications
- LLM integration into mobile experiences
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- On-device AI or GenAI frameworks
Ideal Background We're looking for engineers who have built software and partnered with customers.
Common backgrounds include:
- Mobile Solutions Engineer
- Mobile Solutions Architect
- Developer Relations Engineer
- Technical Consultant (Mobile)
- Professional Services Engineer
Expected Pay Range:Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $114,100 - $214,950 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.In California, the pay range for this position is $148,500 - $214,950
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
