
Principal Scientist, Web Video & Graphics Acceleration – WebGPU
Adobe
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,200 - $360,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for GPU-accelerated rendering, compute, and video processing in Adobe’s web video platform
- Lead design and implementation of performance-critical systems using WebGPU and modern browser graphics APIs
- Evaluate, prototype, and guide adoption of emerging web standards and platform capabilities, influencing Adobe’s long-term technology roadmap
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate creative workflows into scalable, high-quality technical solutions
- Provide technical leadership across teams, aligning engineers and stakeholders around shared architectural principles
- Mentor peer engineers and senior-level contributors, raising technical rigor and growing future technical leaders
- Act as a domain expert and external representative in the broader web graphics and video ecosystem, as appropriate
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of professional software development experience, including work on complex or performance-sensitive systems
- Deep expertise in web graphics or GPU-accelerated technologies, including WebGPU or comparable modern graphics/compute APIs
- Background in GPU programming concepts such as pipelines, shaders, memory models, and performance profiling
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience integrating low-level or high-performance components
- Demonstrated success owning architecture and technical strategy for large-scale products or platforms
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams and drive alignment without direct authority
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience creating and maintaining clean/testable code and creating re-usable components
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
WebGPUJavaScriptTypeScriptGPU programmingperformance profilingshadersmemory modelsperformance-sensitive systemstechnical architecturescalable solutions
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationinfluencingcollaborationalignmentarticulating complex conceptsstakeholder engagementcreative workflow translationraising technical rigor
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science