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Adobe Forward Deployed Engineer: what the postings ask for

By Kris Diallo · Founder, FDE Dispatch · November 2026

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Adobe posts FDE-family seats under Marketing Intelligence, Workfront, Experience Platform, Firefly, and a Sr FDE title in Noida. In FDE Dispatch's November 3, 2026 snapshot of public job boards, Adobe has 7 in-page postings (6 engineer + 1 management), tied for 18th of 114 employers and sole at 7 (17 employers have more). Under the locations-index method (board marks remote with Greenhouse flags excluded, or a listed location contains Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded), 0 of 7 are remote against 176 of 704 (25.0%). Three seats post US pay, with Marketing Intelligence at $109,000 to $200,700. On the November 7, 2026 live check, all 7 were still open. FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Adobe; the figures come from Adobe's public job postings.

What Adobe calls the role

Adobe posts Marketing Intelligence, Workfront, Experience Platform, Firefly Manager, and Sr FDE titles on one Workday board. Six of the seven are engineer family; one is management. None are intern seats.

Marketing Intelligence is Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing Intelligence & Consumer Insights (San Jose with Seattle and San Francisco). Workfront is Forward Deployed Engineer in Lehi. Experience Platform covers Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in San Jose, Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in Bucharest, and Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Adobe Experience Platform in Bucharest. Firefly management is Manager, Firefly FDE in Bangalore. India also lists Sr Forward Deployed Engineer in Noida.

Track Family Primary place Posted USD
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing IntelligenceengineerSan Jose (+ Seattle, San Francisco)$109,000 to $200,700
Forward Deployed Engineer (Workfront Lehi)engineerLehi$159,200 to $301,600
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (San Jose AEP)engineerSan Jose$159,200 to $301,600
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Bucharest)engineerBucharestnone posted
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Adobe Experience PlatformengineerBucharestnone posted
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (Noida)engineerNoidanone posted
Manager, Firefly FDEmanagementBangalorenone posted
Total (in-page)6 engineer + 1 managementUS, EMEA, India3 of 7 with posted USD

Title variants across employers are on Forward Deployed Engineer job titles.

What the Marketing Intelligence seat asks for

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing Intelligence & Consumer Insights states 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years building and deploying AI applications. Stack: Expertise in Python, SQL, and at least one other common language. Platform: Familiarity with Adobe's marketing technology ecosystem: Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Analytics, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Workfront, etc.

US pay on that seat is $109,000 to $200,700. The full skill counts across employers are on Forward Deployed Engineer skills.

Experience Platform Senior seats

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in San Jose and both Bucharest Senior seats state Typical background: 8–15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles. San Jose also states Masters or bachelor’s in computer science or any relevant field.

Platform language on the Senior seats includes AEP / RTCDP / AJO — Adobe’s core platform: data ingestion, segmentation, journey orchestration, audience activation. and Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products (AEP, AJO, RTCDP, CJA, Target). The Bucharest texts embed the engineer with Adobe’s strategic EMEA customers: You will be embedded with Adobe’s most strategic EMEA customers.

Forward Deployed Engineer in Lehi is the Workfront customer-pod seat. It states Typical background: 8 to 12 years in software engineering, solution architecture, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering. What matters is what that experience produced, not the title or the number of years. Stack: Strong skills in a modern language such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python. and Experience building agentic or LLM-powered workflows in enterprise settings. Workfront framing: Adobe Workfront is the work management platform that enterprises rely on to plan, run, and measure work across thousands of people, projects, and approvals.

Posted US pay bands

Three of seven snapshot rows list a numeric USD range. Marketing Intelligence posts US pay from $109,000 to $200,700. Lehi and Senior San Jose each post US pay from $159,200 to $301,600. Bucharest ×2, Bangalore Manager, and Noida have no posted USD. These are annual ranges as posted. Do not treat them as OTE. Posted ranges are not offers.

Seat Primary place As posted
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing IntelligenceSan Jose (+ Seattle, San Francisco)$109,000 to $200,700
Forward Deployed Engineer (Workfront Lehi)Lehi$159,200 to $301,600
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (San Jose AEP)San Jose$159,200 to $301,600

Pay sentences from the open texts include U.S. pay range for this position is $109,000 - $200,700 annually. In California, the pay range for this position is $138,600 - $200,700 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $136,600 - $197,800 on Marketing Intelligence, and U.S. pay range for this position is $159,200 - $301,600 annually. on Lehi and Senior San Jose, with Senior California In California, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600.

Equity language appears on those three US seats as long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award. No grant sizes are stated. The October 24, 2026 US engineer-title median midpoint across 255 US engineer-title postings is $216,104 on Forward Deployed Engineer salary.

Where the roles are

Under the locations-index method (board marks posting remote with Greenhouse flags excluded, or a listed location contains Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded), 0 of 7 are remote, against 176 of 704 (25.0%) across the snapshot. Workday remoteType was null on all seven live CXS responses on November 7, 2026.

Locations are San Jose, Seattle, and San Francisco for Marketing Intelligence; Lehi for Workfront; San Jose for Senior AEP; Bucharest for two Senior AEP seats; Bangalore for Manager Firefly; and Noida for Sr FDE. Metro figures for every employer are on Forward Deployed Engineer jobs by location.

Manager, Firefly FDE (Bangalore)

Manager, Firefly FDE is the one management seat in the set. It states Technical Credibility – 8+ years of software engineering, AI/ML, or technical consulting experience, with recent hands-on development in full-stack, cloud, and GenAI applications. and People Leadership – More than 3 years in managing people or leading technical teams. Travel: Willingness to travel up to 30% to support customers and teams in person. That is the only Adobe seat with travel_pct_stated in the snapshot.

Firefly and GenAI lines include Adobe Platform Fluency – Strong working knowledge of Adobe Firefly APIs, Creative Cloud SDKs, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, and enterprise integration patterns. and GenAI Mastery – Direct experience with modern AI technologies, including LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama, Mistral), diffusion models (Firefly, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E), RAG pipelines, vector databases, and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen). Role framing: As a Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineering, you will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers (FDEs)—creative technologists who prototype, build, and launch GenAI-powered solutions and products directly with customers. No USD pay is posted. Broader management figures are on Forward Deployed Engineering manager.

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (Noida)

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer in Noida states 10+ years of experience across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering. Degree: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science or a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience. Platform: Design and validate enterprise solutions spanning AEP, AJO, Marketo, and adjacent Adobe systems. and Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products such as AEP, AJO, Marketo, CJA, or Target is helpful. No USD pay is posted.

What this means if you are preparing for an Adobe FDE loop

  1. Match the product vertical. Marketing Intelligence leans on Python, SQL, and Adobe's marketing stack. Workfront Lehi asks for modern languages plus agentic or LLM workflows. Senior AEP seats center AEP / RTCDP / AJO and Experience Cloud products.
  2. Read the years line for the seat. Marketing Intelligence sits at 5+ technical / 2+ AI applications. Lehi states 8 to 12 as a typical background. Senior AEP seats state 8 to 15+. Noida asks for 10+. Manager Firefly asks for 8+ technical plus 3+ people leadership.
  3. Treat remote as uncommon here. 0 of 7 are remote under the locations-index method used on this site.
  4. Treat posted US bands as posted ranges only. Marketing Intelligence posts $109,000 to $200,700. Lehi and Senior San Jose post $159,200 to $301,600. Posted ranges are not offers.

Round formats for FDE loops are on the FDE interview loop, explained, and practice prompts on FDE interview practice questions.

Live check November 7, 2026

On November 7, 2026 (PT), FDE Dispatch re-checked every Adobe FDE-family posting from the November 3 in-page snapshot against Workday CXS. All seven returned HTTP 200 with a job description present and canApply true. Workday remoteType was null on all seven. Live evidence links on this page go to public Workday external_experienced URLs and returned HTTP 200 on November 7.

Method and data

Population: the 7 Adobe rows counted in page statistics among the 704 FDE-family postings from 114 employers in the November 3, 2026 postings snapshot. All 7 come from Adobe's public Workday board: 6 engineer and 1 management. Rank by posting count is 18th, sole at 7; 17 employers have more (Databricks 115, Palantir 105, Salesforce 51, Accenture 39, OpenAI 33, LangChain 16, Cognition 15, Cohere 13, ElevenLabs 12, Cursor 11, Scale AI 11, Chalk 9, Cloudflare 9, Saronic 9, Snowflake 9, Shield AI 8, Thomson Reuters 8).

Track comes from the title and location. Remote uses the locations-index method (board marks posting remote (Greenhouse flags excluded) or a listed location contains Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded), the same method as the November 3 change log at 176 of 704 (25.0%). Travel mentions, equity language, and snapshot pay fields come from the snapshot rows; years, stack, platform, travel and pay sentences are hand-verified from the posting texts re-fetched November 7, 2026. Counts are open postings on one day and do not measure headcount.

Downloads: Adobe JSON, field notes, and the per-posting November 3 postings JSON. All published datasets are listed on FDE Dispatch job-posting data. Built by scripts/build-adobe-aggregate.py from the snapshot plus scripts/adobe-evidence-2026-11-07.json.

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Questions people ask

Does Adobe hire Forward Deployed Engineers?

Yes. Adobe had 7 FDE-family postings in FDE Dispatch's November 3, 2026 snapshot, tied for 18th of 114 employers and sole at 7. Six are engineer titles: Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing Intelligence & Consumer Insights (San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco); Forward Deployed Engineer (Lehi Workfront); Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (San Jose); Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Bucharest); Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Adobe Experience Platform (Bucharest); and Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (Noida). One is management: Manager, Firefly FDE (Bangalore). On November 7, 2026, all 7 were still open on Workday CXS.

How much does an Adobe Forward Deployed Engineer make?

Three of Adobe's seven FDE-family postings list a US pay range on the November 3, 2026 snapshot. Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Marketing Intelligence lists US pay from $109,000 to $200,700 (California $138,600 to $200,700; Washington $136,600 to $197,800). Forward Deployed Engineer in Lehi and Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in San Jose each list US pay from $159,200 to $301,600 (Senior California $208,300 to $301,600). The Bucharest seats, Manager Firefly Bangalore, and Sr FDE Noida have no posted USD in the snapshot. These are annual ranges as posted. Do not treat them as OTE. Posted ranges are not offers.

What do Adobe Forward Deployed Engineer postings ask for?

Years and stack differ by seat. Marketing Intelligence asks for 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years building and deploying AI applications, with expertise in Python, SQL, and at least one other common language, plus familiarity with Adobe's marketing technology ecosystem. Lehi Workfront states a typical background of 8 to 12 years and strong skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python, plus agentic or LLM-powered workflows. Senior AEP seats in San Jose and Bucharest state a typical background of 8 to 15+ years and Experience Cloud products such as AEP, AJO, RTCDP, CJA, and Target. Sr FDE Noida asks for 10+ years. Manager, Firefly FDE asks for 8+ years of software engineering, AI/ML, or technical consulting with recent GenAI hands-on work, plus more than 3 years managing people or leading technical teams, and Firefly API fluency.

Are Adobe Forward Deployed Engineer jobs remote?

Under the locations-index method (board marks posting remote with Greenhouse flags excluded, or a listed location contains Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded), 0 of 7 Adobe seats are remote, against 176 of 704 (25.0%) across the snapshot. Workday remoteType was null on all seven live CXS responses on November 7, 2026. Locations are San Jose, Seattle, and San Francisco for Marketing Intelligence; Lehi for Workfront; San Jose for Senior AEP; Bucharest for two Senior AEP seats; Bangalore for Manager Firefly; and Noida for Sr FDE.

Do Adobe Forward Deployed Engineer roles require a security clearance?

The seven open November 7 texts do not require a security clearance, Secret, TS/SCI, or ITAR, and they do not state a blanket U.S. Person rule. The page does not invent clearance language.

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