Adobe
Senior Manager Engineering – Meta Factory
San Jose · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$320kDetected 9 days ago
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About the role
- A platform that understands builders' intent, breaks down complex work, executes it through autonomous agents, and improves with every cycle.
- Meta Factory is the core of this platform.
- It is Adobe's Agentic Builders Experience: a model-independent system that helps agents understand goals, use tools, evaluate outcomes, and improve over time.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering execution for Meta Factory, including the agent harness, agent definitions, execution loop, evaluations, self-improvement systems, and skills framework.
- Lead development of the agent harness, including runtime, tool integrations, context management, control mechanisms, and execution environments.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering team that partners cross-functionally to turn strategy into prioritized, reliable, secure, and scalable execution.
- Design feedback systems that help agents evaluate their work, learn from outcomes, and improve over time.
- Lead build-versus-buy evaluations across the Meta Factory stack, with clear recommendations on where to adopt external solutions and where Adobe should build key capabilities.
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams that deliver AI, developer platform, or infrastructure systems.
- Architecture judgment, including the ability to review designs, evaluate tradeoffs, identify fragile agent behavior, and catch production risks early.
- Experience developing engineers, expanding team capabilities, and supporting career growth.
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, align stakeholders, and drive decisions.
Skills
- a model-independent system that helps agents understand goals, use tools, evaluate outcomes, and improve over time.
- Think of it as Adobe's company-wide version of Claude Code, optimized for Adobe's needs and operated as a platform for the whole company.
- This includes the agent harness, agent definitions, execution loop, evaluation systems, self-improvement capabilities, and skills framework.
- If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
Compensation
- 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 $160,200 -- $320,000 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 $221,000 - $320,000
- 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.
Benefits
- In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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