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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Adobe INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles348 certified filings for “Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $174k–$227k, median $193k. Most were filed at wage level II (46%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Opportunity Adobe Experience Platform powers real-time customer experiences for the world’s largest enterprises — unifying data, resolving identity at scale, orchestrating journeys, and activating audiences across every channel. Behind these capabilities are engineering teams that must understand both the platform’s architecture and the regulated, complex environments where customers operate. The Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, technical consulting, and hands-on engineering. You will be embedded with Adobe’s most strategic customers — working directly with their teams to solve complex platform challenges, design scalable architectures, and build what’s needed to unblock adoption and expansion. You operate inside cross-functional Customer Pods — small, autonomous teams with end-to-end ownership — translating customer problems into working platform solutions. You lead with architecture, prototype rapidly, and close the gap between what customers need and what the platform delivers. What You’ll Do • Partner directly with strategic customers to understand their architecture, workflows, security requirements, and business objectives. • Translate complex customer problems into scalable solution designs, reference architectures, and working prototypes. • Investigate and troubleshoot production-level platform issues — from data ingestion and identity resolution to journey orchestration and audience activation. • Design and validate end-to-end enterprise solutions spanning AEP, RTCDP, AJO, and adjacent Adobe systems. • Lead architecture workshops, health checks, and technical deep-dives that earn customer trust before any commercial motion. • Rapidly prototype, experiment, and iterate on new capabilities — using AI-assisted tools as a standard part of execution. • Bridge the gap between customer needs, product direction, and engineering implementation — feeding field patterns back into the product roadmap. • Own the technical relationship with assigned accounts — from initial discovery through implementation, go-live, and expansion. What Success Looks Like We hire for demonstrated impact, not credential accumulation. Strong candidates will show: • Software Development Acumen — You write code, build prototypes, and ship working software. Your architectures are grounded in implementation reality because you’ve built them yourself. • Customer Empathy — You connect with customers on their terms — understanding their pressures, constraints, and definitions of success. Trust is earned through empathy, not just expertise. • Collaborative Engagement — You engage cross-functionally with ease, aligning engineers, architects, product managers, and executive stakeholders around shared outcomes. • Communication — You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences — in workshops, written architecture reviews, and executive briefings. • Business Acumen — You translate business goals into solution design. You understand the use case before reaching for the technology, and your architectures reflect that order of operations. • Cross-Product Architecture — You design end-to-end solutions across multiple products and systems — not just individual components. Your architectures hold up under integration, scale, and production conditions. • Data Modeling — You understand how data is structured, modeled, and moved. You can evaluate trade-offs in schema design, identity resolution, and data pipeline architecture. • Growth Mindset & AI Fluency — You actively build toward agentic capabilities and adopt AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) as a standard part of how you design, prototype, and deliver.