Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative AI

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Key Responsibilities

you set the technical and creative direction other engineers follow, through influence, not headcount. You take the engagements no one else can land — the impossible-timeline Fortune 100 account,

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OtherForward Deployed EngineerCreative Technologist

Every global brand is now a content factory — thousands of on-brand variations a quarter across static, video, and 3D, shipped in days not weeks. We embed with enterprise customers, learn their content supply chain end-to-end, and build the custom AI-powered workflows that get them there — on Adobe Firefly Services, Firefly Creative Production (our node-based workflow builder), and Adobe Brand Intelligence (ABI) for brand validation and compliance.

The base FDCT bench gets customers there; you set the bar they reach for. You take the engagements no one else can land — the Fortune 100 with the impossible timeline, the strategic account where the whole FDE motion has to prove itself, the fractured stack where nothing works the way the docs say. The deal is signed, but the users never signed up for it — and here the politics are worse, the stack messier, the renewal bigger. You go in first; the bench follows.

You are the technical and creative anchor of the org — the team gets sharper around you, and when you're in the C-suite room, customers stop second-guess

ing the timeline.

We are not pre-sales. We are not consultants. We are technical creators who ship, who get used — and who make everyone around us better.

This role requires all four of the asks below — at the same time, in the same person, at the hardest scale in the organization.

You ship production code every week — real, full-stack systems that run in front of real customers. Not scripts. Not prototypes that die after the demo.

You have deep, professional-grade mastery of at least one of: Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D or Substance 3D — or an equivalent tool in your craft. Not familiarity. Mastery.

You can walk into a room of CMOs and CTOs from a Fortune 100 brand — the account with the impossible timeline, the fractured stack, the deal that has to prove out the whole motion — run a live demo unscripted, and walk out with the room won.

You’ve set a technical or creative direction that changed how an org works — a real “before-me / after-me,” not a one-off win.

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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 $190,200 -- $360,500 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 $248,900 - $360,500

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