Principal Software Developer, Data Pipelines - Generative AI. Canada or East Coast United States
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Position Overview
Autodesk is leading the transformation of the AEC industry, integrating AI technology into our products. We're enhancing our applications with cloud-native capabilities, including data at scale, edge computing, AI-based solutions, and advanced 3D modeling and graphics. This innovation is happening across our flagship products—AutoCAD, Revit, and Construction Cloud—and Forma, our new Industry Cloud.
As a Principal Software Developer on the AEC Solutions team, you will join a team of technologists to build data pipelines to power our work in artificial intelligence, deep learning, generative AI, machine learning, reinforcement learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing. You will collaborate across organizations with a versatile group of AI Researchers, ML Engineers, Software Architects, and Experience Designers that are building cutting-edge foundation models and generative AI tools for the AEC industry. You'll also help ensure that we maintain privacy and security standards respecting and safeguarding our customers' data.
Report: You will report to the Senior AI/ML Development Manager in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Solutions Team.
Location: We support hybrid work, and you work near our Boston, Massachusetts or Toronto, Canada offices.
Responsibilities
Design scalable, distributed systems and microservices in a production setting
Develop scalable and resilient data ingestion and processing pipelines, monitoring and self-healing systems that power AI-based solutions for AEC workflows
Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with a high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices
Participate in software design reviews, conduct peer code reviews, and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team
Write unit, functional, regression tests for the code you create, and contribute to the test automation, continuous integration, and deployment processes together with everyone else in the development team
Work with software architects and product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components
Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Minimum Qualifications
BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
10+ years of software engineering experience
Experience writing performant code in Java or Python
Experience developing data ingestion and processing pipelines, monitoring and self-healing systems
Experience delivering production applications with Amazon Web Services
Proficiency in serverless and managed Amazon Web Services including Lambdas, AWS Step, and SQS
Experience in utilizing AWS IAM to develop secure solutions, specifically with resource access policies and IAM roles
Experience with AWS infrastructure as code solutions, such as CDK or Cloud Formation
Experience working with Data Lake or Warehouses, ETLs
Experience with microservices and RESTful web services
Experience with modern software practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience with Scrum and Agile development processes and methodologies
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the AEC industry, Autodesk products such as Revit, and AEC data schemas and standards
Experience with cloud-native capabilities, including data at scale, edge computing, and AI-based solutions
Ideal Candidate
You easily collaborate with other members of an Agile team to get products and components developed and completed
You are constantly striving to learn new technologies and methodologies
You exhibit a low tolerance for inefficiency and have a burning desire to automate anything that can be automated
You are adaptable, customer-focused, and seek new ways to solve hard problems
You have a passion for making simple, scalable platforms used by other engineering teams
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