Senior Computer Scientist

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool for people who love art, illustration and designing. It offers creative tools to design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics, typography and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision across desktop, mobile and web. The Adobe Illustrator team is looking for a passionate, hardworking and highly motivated engineer and technical problem solver to help build scalable, responsive, next-generation vector editing application that makes vector drawing ubiquitous.

Desired Skills and ExperienceResponsibilities

As a developer for Adobe Creative Cloud – Illustrator, you will work with a team of hardworking developers.

You and your team will add features in products that are strategic to Adobe’s growth.

Partner with Product Manager, fellow engineers, and other partners in defining the roadmap, scope, and work for releases.

Lead your features end-to-end starting from gathering requirements, design, implementation, and instrumenting unit and automation test cases.

Maintain existing features and constantly strive toward optimizing memory and processing footprint.

Should be a proactive self-starter who can develop methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results.

You would be an expert on or more platforms and knowledgeable of cross-platform issues, competitive products, and customer requirements. You would contribute significantly towards the development and application of advanced concepts, technologies and expertise within the team.

This role involves addressing architecture and design issues for future products, providing strategic direction in evaluating new technologies.

Must have

Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related from a premier institute

12+ years of hands on design / development experience

Deep experience in modern C++, object-oriented programming, debugging, and profiling

Expertise in writing highly performant native code on platforms like macOS, Windows, Web.

Experience with GenAI, ML, Diffusion, LLM, LoRa models.

Should have excellent computer science fundamentals and a good understanding of architecture, design and performance.

Exceptional problem-solving skills

Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication skills

Must be familiar with working in a fast paced global environment

Good to have

Experience in Web-assembly

Experience with GPU, WebGL, Skia rendering.

About Adobe

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