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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Location
LEHI, UT
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Job overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer works with strategic Adobe Workfront customers to solve platform challenges, design scalable integrations, and build solutions that support adoption and expansion. Embedded in a cross-functional Customer Pod, the senior engineer sets technical direction, mentors teammates, and owns customer technical relationships from discovery through go-live. The role combines software engineering, solution architecture, and technical consulting in complex enterprise environments.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer EmpathyOwnershipCommunicationBusiness AcumenSoftware DevelopmentData ModelingAPI DesignSystem IntegrationAI-Assisted DevelopmentWork Management PlatformsREST APIsWebhooksEvent-Driven PatternsWorkflow OrchestrationEnterprise ArchitectureSSO and Identity

Qualifications

8+ Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

The Opportunity Adobe Workfront is the work management platform that enterprises rely on to plan, run, and measure work across thousands of people, projects, and approvals. Behind it are engineering teams who understand both the platform and the complex, often regulated environments where customers use it. The Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of software engineering, solution architecture, and technical consulting. You will be embedded with Workfront's most strategic customers, working directly with their teams to solve hard platform challenges, design scalable integrations, and build what is needed to unblock adoption and expansion. You will work in a cross-functional Customer Pod: a small, autonomous team with end-to-end ownership. As a senior engineer, you set technical direction for your accounts, mentor other builders, and close the gap between what customers need and what the platform delivers. What You'll Do * Partner with strategic customers to understand their workflows, systems, security requirements, and business goals. * Turn complex customer problems into scalable solution designs, reference architectures, and working prototypes. * Build and ship custom integrations and extensions across Workfront Workflow, Workfront Planning, Workfront Fusion, APIs, and adjacent Adobe and third-party systems. * Investigate and resolve production issues, from data and permissions models to automation, reporting, and performance. * Lead architecture workshops, health checks, and technical deep dives that earn customer trust. * Prototype and iterate quickly, using AI-assisted tools as a standard part of how you work. * Feed field patterns back to product and engineering to shape the Workfront roadmap. * Mentor engineers in the pod and set practices for how the team documents decisions and learnings. * Own the technical relationship with assigned accounts from discovery through go-live and expansion. What Success Looks Like We hire for demonstrated impact, not credential accumulation. Strong candidates show: * Customer empathy. You meet customers on their terms and understand their constraints and definition of success. * Ownership at senior level. You find problems before they are assigned and drive them to resolution without waiting for permission. * Clear communication. You explain complex ideas to technical and executive audiences in workshops, architecture reviews, and briefings. * Business acumen. You understand the use case before choosing the technology. * Software craft. You write code, build prototypes, and ship working software. Your designs reflect implementation reality. * Data and integration judgment. You weigh trade-offs in data models, API design, and system integration. * Growth mindset and AI fluency. You use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) to design, prototype, and deliver, and you build toward agentic capabilities. 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. Your Domain * Work management platforms: Workfront or comparable tools (project, portfolio, resource, planning, proofing, and approval workflows). * Integration and automation: REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, and low-code or workflow orchestration tools such as Workfront Fusion. * Enterprise architecture: Multi-system integration, SSO and identity, data flows, and API design across complex landscapes. * Application development: Strong... For full info follow application link. Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,558 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$135–253K/yr2,185 salary ranges
  • US median$31–91/hr62 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 12 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in Utah and 2,558 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,200 postings).
Education
562 of the 2,558 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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