Senior Development Manager, Platforms Development Ai/ml Toronto, Ontario

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +2 · Remote

Senior Development Manager to lead a team of software and ML engineers in building Autodesk's next-generation machine learning platform (AMP). This platform will power Agentic AI features across Autodesk products. The role requires technical leadership, driving technical strategy, execution, and delivery of scalable AI/ML platforms, and ensuring adoption. Responsibilities include leading and mentoring teams, collaborating with cross-functional teams, guiding system design and architecture, managing execution and budgets, participating in code reviews, fostering a high-performance culture, and hiring top talent. Requires experience in software development, managing ML teams, building scalable production applications on cloud platforms, experience with agentic AI architectures, MLOps, CI/CD, deep learning, and agile methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and mentor a team of engineers 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 such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience building and deploying AI models, for rapid AI application development, using AWS SageMaker, Bedrock or Azure Machine Learning
  • Experience working with complex agentic AI architectures, API ecosystems, guardrails, context management and other best of breed AI/ML offerings
  • Understanding of MLOps principles and practices for effectively managing and automating machine learning workflows, including model versioning, monitoring, and deployment
  • 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 towards achieving project goals

Nice to have

  • MS preferred
  • You have prior experience in building highly scalable and performant AI/ML platforms
  • You can recruit and attract exceptional talent, have a passion to mentor your team
  • You are seasoned in development processes of continuous integration and continuous delivery
  • You practice SCRUM and know how to build and guide highly effective, self-managing and high performing teams
  • You have a strong bias towards action and ability to manage short-term decisions with longer-term vision
  • You can align technical objectives with business goals, develop and execute roadmaps, with ability to incrementally deliver on team’s goal

What the JD emphasized

  • deep experience leading enterprise-scale platform development
  • proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget
  • Experience building and deploying AI models, for rapid AI application development
  • Experience working with complex agentic AI architectures
  • Experience building and deploying AI models

Other signals

  • leading enterprise-scale platform development
  • building AMP, our next-generation machine learning platform
  • developing the platform that powers the next generation of Agentic AI features