Senior Ai/ml Engineer (autocad & Civil 3d)

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +1 · Remote

Autodesk is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to build AI-powered design experiences for AutoCAD and Civil 3D. This role involves identifying, prototyping, and integrating AI advancements into product features, focusing on LLMs, agents, and RAG. The position requires hands-on development, rapid experimentation, and collaboration with product and engineering teams to deliver customer value in the AEC domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build AI-powered experiences that enhance customer workflows in AutoCAD and Civil 3D
  2. Prototype, experiment, and validate new ideas quickly. Use modern AI tools and coding assistants to go from idea to working prototype in days, not months - validating concepts quickly and cheaply before we invest
  3. Explore emerging AI/ML capabilities and convert them into concrete, customer-facing workflows within AutoCAD and Civil 3D
  4. Stay on the edge. Continuously evaluate new AI models, tools, and techniques, and make pragmatic calls about what's ready to bring into our products
  5. Develop solutions using LLMs, agents, RAG, and other modern AI/ML techniques

Skills

Required

  • Applied AI
  • Machine Learning
  • AI Product Engineering
  • ML Engineering
  • Software Engineering with significant AI/ML responsibilities
  • Python
  • C#
  • C++
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • LLM-powered applications
  • RAG architectures
  • Agent-based systems
  • AI evaluation
  • AI observability
  • AI benchmarking
  • AI quality measurement

Nice to have

  • Domain knowledge of Architecture, Engineering, or Construction (AEC) workflows
  • Familiarity with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, or other AEC/design software (as a user or developer via their APIs/SDKs)
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • technical publications
  • patents
  • research projects
  • demonstrated AI experimentation

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of experience in Applied AI, Machine Learning, AI Product Engineering, ML Engineering, or Software Engineering with significant AI/ML responsibilities
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications, including one or more of: LLM-powered applications, RAG architectures, or agent-based systems
  • Demonstrated track record of translating new technology into working, customer-facing product capabilities

Other signals

  • Build AI-powered experiences
  • Prototype, experiment, and validate new ideas quickly
  • Develop solutions using LLMs, agents, RAG
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications