Member of Technical Staff - II (C++)

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Job Description:
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool for people who love art, illustration and designing. It offers creative tools to design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics, typography and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision across desktop, mobile and web. The Adobe Illustrator team is looking for a passionate, hardworking and highly motivated engineer and technical problem solver to help build scalable, responsive, next-generation vector editing application that makes vector drawing ubiquitous.
Desired Skills and Experience
Responsibilities

• As a Senior developer for Adobe Creative Cloud – Illustrator, you will work with a team of hardworking developers.
• You and your team will add features in products that are strategic to Adobe’s growth.
• Partner with Product Manager, fellow engineers, and other partners in defining the roadmap, scope, and work for releases.
• Own your features end-to-end starting from gathering requirements, design, implementation, and instrumenting unit and automation test cases.
• Maintain existing features and constantly strive toward optimizing memory and processing footprint.
• Should be a proactive self-starter who can develop methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results.
• You would be an expert on one or more platforms and knowledgeable of cross-platform issues, competitive products, and customer requirements. And would contribute significantly towards the development and application of advanced concepts, technologies and expertise within the team.
• You would be required to address broad architecture and design issues of future products or technologies and provide strategic direction in evaluating new technologies in your area of expertise.

Must have

• Bachelors or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related from a premier institute
• 2+ years of hands on design / development experience
• Deep experience in modern C++, object-oriented programming, debugging, and profiling
• Expertise in writing highly performant native code on platforms like macOS, Windows, Web.
• Should have excellent computer science fundamentals and a good understanding of architecture, design and performance.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Excellent social skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Must be familiar with working in a fast paced global environment
   

Good to have

• Experience in Javascript/React programming language.
• Experience with GenAI, ML, Diffusion, LLM, LoRa models.
• Experience working with SQL database, In-memory cache.
• Experience with GPU, WebGL, Skia rendering.

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