PhD Intern, AI Research - Datasets & Benchmarks

Position Overview

The work we do at Autodesk touches nearly every person on the planet. By creating software for making buildings, machines, and even the latest movies, we influence and empower some of the most creative people in the world to solve problems that matter.

You are excited to collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to build datasets and benchmarks that power generative AI features in Autodesk products. You are an excellent communicator and excited to work at the intersection of AI Research, HCI, and product.

You will report to a research manager in the Autodesk AI Lab. We are a global team, located in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and remotely. For this role we support both in-person, hybrid, and remote work.

Responsibilities

• Own research projects at the intersection of AI dataset curation, ML benchmarking, and HCI.

• Design and run human experiments related to AI tool use for design.

• Develop and deploy scalable data collection techniques and pipelines for machine learning.

• Organize and curate large, unstructured, disparate multi-modal (text, images, 3D models, code snippets, metadata) data sources into a unified format suitable for machine learning.

• Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights to other researchers and leadership.

• Co-write original research papers.

• Write robust, testable code that is well-documented and easy to understand.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current PhD Student in HCI, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• Excellent software engineering skills, including Machine Learning.

• Experience with collecting human data for training and evaluating ML models.

• Strong data modeling, architecture, and processing skills with varied data representations including 2D and 3D geometry.

• Excellent communication skills to document code, produce visualizations, and present findings from experiments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates curiosity, creativity, and self-motivation, with a collaborative mindset and the flexibility to adapt to new challenges and evolving research directions.

• Strong publication record related to HCI, AI datasets and benchmarks, or ML.

• Experience with computational geometry, CAD data, and 3D formats such as meshes, boundary representations (BReps), or implicit representations.

• Familiarity with the latest developments in ML models, datasets, training pipelines, and benchmarks, and the ability to translate new research into practical tools and workflows.

• Motivated by the opportunity to apply machine learning to real-world challenges in design, manufacturing, construction, and media & entertainment.

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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!

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience, educational level, and geographic location, and can exceed this range.

For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting annualized intern base salary to be between:

• $47,840 and $95,680 (undergraduate students)
• $72,800 and $118,500 (Masters/MBA students)
• $118,560 and $162,240 (PhD students)

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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