The opportunityAre you passionate about web UI design and development, solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Design Engineer to join Document Cloud Foundations and work on the design system.
Your work will ultimately benefit millions of Adobe customers — helping Adobe’s designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services.
As a senior team member, you’ll participate in key technical planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. Team members participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery.
What you’ll doLead 0→1 and iterative development of the Document Cloud design system, including architecture, components, and scalable patterns
Drive technical direction and decision-making across system architecture, APIs, and implementation strategies
Partner with design, engineering, and platform teams (including Adobe Spectrum) to ensure alignment, consistency, and adoption across products
Define and promote best practices for building, testing, and consuming design system components
Author high-quality documentation to support internal consumers
Identify and apply AI/LLM technologies to improve developer and designer workflows, system scalability, and user experience
Mentor engineers and designers, raising the bar for quality, accessibility, and maintainability across the system
Influence adoption and usage of the design system across multiple teams and products
What you need to succeedMust-Haves:
8-10+ years of relevant experience in industry
Experience leading technical projects or influencing architecture across multiple teams
Have shipped and validated production quality applications in React and Typescript
Expert knowledge in JavaScript and CSS fundamentals and have composed applications you are proud of in modern frameworks and libraries
Experience with git and GitHub, the process of contributing to open source development, and performing peer code reviews.
Experience with CSS architecture and best practices, such as pre- and post-processors, cross-browser concerns, layout, CSS custom properties, responsive design, and animation.
Familiarity with design systems concepts such as tokens, tooling, standard methodologies, and how they integrate with product development
Experience building libraries, frameworks, or SDKs used by other developers
Understanding of accessibility practices (WCAG), web standards, and testing methods including unit testing and visual regression testing.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in real-world workflows.
A pragmatic, collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment closely working with designers and engineers.
Nice-to-Haves:
Experience building LLM powered applications, and familiarity with the generative AI landscape.
Experience building responsive components for mobile web
Practice with open development, providing collaborative and detailed feedback to other team members
Hands-on usage of build, test, and release methods; such as compilers, linting, CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques, and modern dev-ops practices
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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 $159,200 -- $301,600 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 $208,300 - $301,600
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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
