Adobe

Senior Computer Scientist

Adobe San Jose, CA

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about empowering people to craft beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to building exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are looking for a senior application software engineer with a strong understanding of common UI toolkits, familiarity with 3D graphics applications to participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of our next generation multi surface collaborative VR/AR/MR (Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality) software for creative professionals. Leveraging various technologies to visualize, communicate, and review 3D content, we believe this new product will enable artist-friendly 3D capabilities to rapidly engage and review 3D content in a realtime collaborative environment.

We are a tight knit team developing state-of-the-art software and delivering robust, fast, and resource-conscious components to product teams.

Our team will closely collaborate with Adobe's UX design and research teams to turn groundbreaking ideas and technologies into shipping features.

What You'll Do

  • Work collaboratively with UX designers, engineers and researchers to architect, develop, maintain and optimize new software solutions
  • Design and implement modern algorithms by writing robust, high-performance code
  • Develop experiments to explore tradeoffs between various possible implementations
  • Identify and fix application bugs and performance bottlenecks
  • Review code on a near daily basis and give detailed, constructive feedback
  • Work closely with many different product and teams across Adobe to integrate software across organizational boundaries
  • Provide leadership to the group and mentorship to junior-level engineers

What You Need To Succeed

  • 10+ years writing C++ (or equivalent) application software
  • 5+ years writing VR/XR applications
    • Experiencing designing and developing VR/XR user interfaces
  • Equally proficient in building 3D software directly in C++ or within Unity in C#
  • Experience writing cross platform code
  • Experience in profiling, debugging and testing applications
  • Experience with optimization and profiling tools
  • Experience in at least one scripting language, Python in particular
  • Welcomed expertise:
    • Unity Development Platform
    • Modern graphics APIs (OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal)
    • 3D content creation tools (e.g. Maya, Cinema4D)
  • Strong communication skills and attention to detail
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience or education

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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 $124,000 -- $234,200 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.

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. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

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

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action 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 applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting, Advertising Services, and Software Development

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