Job Description

Adobe is a place where exceptional people work – don’t just take our word for it, our employees have recently voted us and Adobe Japan has been ranked 13th, for Great Place to Work.

We’re proud to offer market competitive employee benefits designed to suit you and your lifestyle. Some of the great benefits include health insurance, global days off, wellness fund, parental leave, access to our Employee Stock Purchase Program and programs designed to help you continue to build your career. To learn more, please visit https://benefits.adobe.com/jp

We also proudly empower our employees to get involved with corporate social responsibility and offer a broad range of opportunities to enable you to make a bigger impact through philanthropy, employee, and community engagement

We know that people are the differentiator in our business, and that's why we want to meet you!  

The opportunity

Join Adobe as a Senior Developer and help build next-generation digital experiences for the Japanese market. You’ll lead engineering efforts to build intelligent, localized features across Adobe’s product portfolio, using modern development practices and generative AI technologies.

Based in Tokyo, you’ll be part of Adobe’s International Product and Services organization, passionate about delivering high-quality, world-ready products. This role combines strong engineering fundamentals with applied AI to improve user experiences for Japanese customers.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate across teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products tailored to Japanese users
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality software using modern web technologies and backend systems
• Integrate generative AI capabilities into product features (e.g., text processing, content generation, intelligent UX)
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and development workflows
• Prototype and apply advanced AI techniques, including fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), for Japan-specific use cases
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of software development experience with strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Native-level Japanese and business-level English, language skills. Ability to collaborate with internationally team members
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience building modern front-end applications (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React) and working with REST APIs; familiarity with C/C++ or JavaScript
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Familiarity with Japanese text processing, character encoding, and typography; skill in handling complex text rendering systems
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and models (LLMs, diffusion, or multimodal systems)
• Understanding of model capabilities, limitations, and evaluation techniques (e.g., hallucination handling), fundamental grasp of linear algebra principles (including affine transformations)
• Experience or curiosity about fine-tuning models, building RAG pipelines, and applying AI to Japanese language and cultural contexts
• Knowledge of or experience in computer graphics, layout/typesetting, or text processing is a plus; interest in Japanese typography and traditional printing (letterpress) is highly valued

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity 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 protected characteristic. Learn more.

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