Staff Design Engineer, Document Foundations

Job description

The opportunity

Are you passionate about web UI design and development, solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Design Engineer to join Document Cloud Foundations and work on the design system. 

Your work will ultimately benefit millions of Adobe customers — helping Adobe’s designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services.

As a senior team member, you’ll participate in key technical planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. Team members participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery. 

What you’ll do

• Lead 0→1 and iterative development of the Document Cloud design system, including architecture, components, and scalable patterns 

• Drive technical direction and decision-making across system architecture, APIs, and implementation strategies 

• Partner with design, engineering, and platform teams (including Adobe Spectrum) to ensure alignment, consistency, and adoption across products 

• Define and promote best practices for building, testing, and consuming design system components 

• Author high-quality documentation to support internal consumers

• Identify and apply AI/LLM technologies to improve developer and designer workflows, system scalability, and user experience

• Mentor engineers and designers, raising the bar for quality, accessibility, and maintainability across the system 

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