Adobe

Senior Manager Engineering – Meta Factory

San Jose, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$320kDetected 9 hours 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.

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.

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.

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.

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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