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About the Role

Drover is the framework powering Adobe's flagship desktop applications like Photoshop and Illustrator. This Senior Design Engineer role focuses on modernizing how Adobe's desktop products are built, and their look and feel. You will influence the technical implementation and support of Adobe’s design system, Spectrum, defining how designs come to life across desktop UI. This is an opportunity to innovate by bringing a modern design system to a high-performance native framework, addressing challenges in layout, animation, compositing, rendering, theming, and performance.

Responsibilities

Partner with designers, engineers, and product teams
Modernize Drover’s UI foundations for fast, polished, native experiences
Shape framework capabilities, APIs, and abstractions that help product teams ship UI faster and more consistently
Prototype, validate, and ship new UI capabilities through close collaboration
Build automation, validation, and performance systems that make quality measurable at scale
Participate in design and code reviews, helping set the standard for UI craft
Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully while maintaining high standards for correctness, performance, and quality

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with deep production C++ expertise
Strong systems-design experience, including framework or platform architecture
Depth in at least one UI framework area, such as layout, animation, rendering, theming, or performance
Experience building cross-platform software for Windows and macOS
A track record of solving complex technical problems while keeping software fast, reliable, and maintainable
Design sensibility, strong communication skills, and experience developing alignment across design and engineering teams

Skills

C++
Objective-C
JavaScript/TypeScript
Python

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$139,000 -- $257,550 annually
$177,900 - $257,550 (California)
$161,700 - $234,150 (Washington)

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits programs

About the Company

Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global organization behind Adobe experiences, with a full-stack team including design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers.
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Adobe's 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as they drive the next decade of growth.
Adobe believes in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
Adobe believes that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.

Equal Opportunity

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
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