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Oslo: Hybrid
Are you an engineering leader who is passionate about developing people, building great products, and using technology to solve meaningful real-world problems? Join Autodesk Forma and help shape the next generation of cloud-based design applications for architects, planners, and developers.
As Head of Engineering – Forma Design Apps, you'll lead the engineering organization behind the customer-facing experiences where our users explore possibilities, develop designs, analyze their impact, and make decisions about future buildings, neighborhoods, and cities.
This is a leadership role with real influence and autonomy. You'll coach and empower Engineering Managers, strengthen how teams work together, and help create an environment where talented people can grow, take ownership, and do their best work. You'll also stay connected to technology, bringing engineering experience and judgment to engage with teams, understanding complex challenges, and helping them make thoughtful decisions.
At Autodesk Forma, we work in small, empowered teams where engineers, designers, and product managers share ownership of customer outcomes. We value curiosity, collaboration, experimentation, and learning from our users. You'll join an international environment where different perspectives are valued and where you can influence how we work as Forma continues to evolve.
Our mission is ambitious: help design better cities. Forma helps architects, planners, and developers explore smarter and more sustainable solutions early in the design process — when decisions can have the greatest impact on the people who will live and work in the places they create.
If you're excited by the opportunity to grow people, influence technology, and build products with meaningful impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
Lead and Grow the Engineering Organization
Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Managers, helping them build healthy, empowered, high-performing teams
Shape the engineering organization as we grow, including team structure, staffing, hiring, and allocation of talent across squads
Build an environment of trust, ownership, continuous learning, and strong engineering leadership
Identify capability needs and turn them into hiring, development, or organizational actions
Drive Product & Engineering Excellence
Lead engineering delivery across multiple squads building customer-facing Forma design applications
Partner closely with Product and Design to turn product strategy and customer needs into shipped outcomes
Enable teams to experiment, learn from users, and move quickly while making thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term sustainability
Strengthen engineering practices across reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, and developer experience
Stay Close to the Technology
Partner with the Software Architect and Tech Leads on technical direction, risks, and cross-team dependencies
Bring the technical depth to engage meaningfully in engineering discussions, ask the right questions, and help teams navigate complex decisions
Ensure technical debt and long-term system health are deliberately balanced with product delivery
Encourage thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies, including AI, across our products and engineering practices
Lead Across Forma & Autodesk
Strengthen collaboration across Engineering, Product, and Design
Partner with Forma Design Tools and other Autodesk teams on shared capabilities and integrations
Help teams maintain speed, experimentation, and ownership as Forma continues to grow within Autodesk
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of previous hands-on experience as a software developer
Engineering leadership experience across multiple teams, including experience managing and developing Engineering Managers or senior engineering leaders
Track record of building and delivering customer-facing software products, ideally cloud-based web applications
Strong technical judgment and the credibility to engage with engineers on architecture, integrations, quality, performance, and technical trade-offs
Experience working closely with Product and Design to build high-quality user experiences
Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent and building effective teams
Ability to operate with autonomy, make decisions in ambiguity, and balance product delivery with long-term engineering health
Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines and seniority levels
Professional English proficiency
Preferred Qualifications
Experience taking new software products from idea to market and evolving them through customer feedback and experimentation
Experience in a startup, scale-up, or fast-moving product technology environment, combined with experience navigating organizational complexity
Experience with rich, interactive, or performance-sensitive web applications
Experience with 3D, graphics, WebGL/WebGPU, geospatial technology, simulation, CAD, BIM, or design software
Experience with AI-assisted development or AI-enabled customer experiences
Experience using product analytics, user testing, or experimentation to inform product development
Knowledge of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is helpful but not required
Experience working across international, cross-functional product organizations
We know great candidates don't always match every qualification listed. If the mission excites you and you believe your experience can help us build great teams and products, we'd love to hear from you
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About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.Belonging
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Skills Required
- 10+ years in software engineering
- 5+ years in engineering leadership
- Experience managing Engineering Managers
- Track record delivering cloud-based products
- Proven ability under pressure to make delivery and quality trade-offs
- Strong engineering background
- Experience partnering with Product and Design
Autodesk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Autodesk and has not been reviewed or approved by Autodesk.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is considered expansive, combining discretionary time off for salaried roles, company holidays/Autodays, and a periodic paid sabbatical. These options provide flexibility beyond standard accrual-based PTO.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total rewards prominently include RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount and lookback, alongside annual bonus or commission programs. These elements are available to eligible employees and can materially augment base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, IVF/co‑maternity, and fertility benefits, plus dedicated coaching and Cleo resources for parenting and caregiving. These services extend support before, during, and after leave.
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What We Do
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
Why Work With Us
Our work is impactful. Our people are innovative. And our culture is inclusive. As our software shapes new solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, you shape your career path. With us, you lead the way in achieving sustainability, resilient communities, and an equitable workforce. Discover #AutodeskLife.
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