Senior Development Manager, Ai/ml Platform Toronto, Ca

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +1

Autodesk is looking for a Development Manager to lead a team of software and ML developers in designing, developing, and executing their next-generation machine learning platform (AMP). The role involves technical leadership, driving the platform's technical strategy, execution, and delivery, and ensuring its adoption. The team will focus on developing agentic AI features for Autodesk products. Responsibilities include mentoring developers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, guiding the architecture of scalable AI/ML systems, managing project execution, and participating in code reviews. The role requires experience with cloud platforms, AI model deployment (SageMaker, Bedrock), agentic AI architectures, MLOps, CI/CD, and deep learning.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and mentor a team of developers in the development and deployment of AI/ML solutions
  2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, data science, data, and cloud infrastructure to define and execute the AI/ML platform roadmap
  3. Provide guidance to the design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and efficient AI/ML systems and drive critical technology decisions
  4. Driving the execution of the platform strategy following principles of agile methodology and best practices in software development, code quality, and security standards
  5. Create and manage plans, track, and ensure tactical execution and adherence to budgets, schedules, plans, and performance

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 12+ years of experience of software development
  • 3+ years of experience as a manager
  • Proven experience leading and mentoring software and ML development teams
  • Experience with design, build and running scalable, high-performance systems production applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
  • Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience building and deploying AI models
  • Experience using AWS SageMaker, Bedrock or Azure Machine Learning
  • Experience working with complex agentic AI architectures, API ecosystems, guardrails, context management
  • Understanding of MLOps principles and practices
  • Expertise in CI/CD, automation tools, and practices for machine learning lifecycle management
  • Strong background in AI/ML with experience in deep learning, statistical modeling, and neural networks
  • Experience with Scrum and agile development processes and methodologies
  • Excellent communication and written skills
  • Ability to inspire, motivate, and guide team members

Nice to have

  • MS preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • lead and mentor a team of developers
  • design, development, and execution of AMP, our next generation machine learning platform
  • develop the next generation of Agentic AI features
  • technical leadership
  • driving the technical strategy, execution, and delivery of scalable AI/ML platform
  • proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget
  • Experience building and deploying AI models
  • Experience working with complex agentic AI architectures

Other signals

  • Leading a team of ML developers
  • Developing and deploying AI/ML solutions
  • Building and running scalable AI/ML platforms
  • Experience with complex agentic AI architectures