Autodesk, Inc

Principal MCP/AI Developer

Autodesk, Inc$153K — $224K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • 8–12+ years in software engineering, with significant focus on large-scale or platform systems.
  • Hands-on experience in building and operating AI/ML systems in production, particularly LLMs and agents.
  • Expert proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web technologies, with strong architectural skills in distributed systems.
  • Ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Experience operating independently in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Excellent communication skills to engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical strategy for the agentic platform, including the tool/capability model and architecture.
  • Frame and prioritize AI problems aligning with product strategies and convert ambiguity into actionable plans.
  • Establish an evaluation and quality framework for AI systems, focusing on accuracy, safety, and performance trade-offs.
  • Set architecture standards for trust including traceability, auditability, and human-in-the-loop practices.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives that encompass multiple products, influencing teams across the organization.
  • Promote shared agentic capabilities and frameworks, raising engineering standards and ML maturity.
  • Act as the technical authority for critical decisions regarding performance and scalability, mentoring senior engineers.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment focused on innovation.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentoring.
  • Involvement in cutting-edge AI projects with real impact.
  • Dynamic team culture promoting shared knowledge and expertise.
Full Job Description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD99362

Position Overview

Autodesk's Visualization Solutions power high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. Our new team in Canada is bringing agentic AI to that experience — expanding our Viewer MCP (Model Context Protocol) into a production-grade agentic platform that lets users interact with their models in natural language and that other Visualization Solutions teams build on.

As the Principal MCP/AI Developer, you will define and drive the technical direction of that platform — its capability/tool model, agent-orchestration architecture, trust model, and the way we evaluate and operate AI in production. You operate on highly complex, ambiguous problems that span systems, domains, and teams, and you bring deep applied-ML and ML-systems expertise. You are the technical authority who sets the bar for responsible and reliable AI, and multiplies the impact of every engineer on the team.

Responsibilities
  • Define and drive the technical strategy for the agentic platform: the MCP tool/capability model, agent-orchestration architecture, context/memory, retrieval, and trust model.

  • Frame and prioritize the highest-impact AI problems, aligned with product and platform strategy, and turn ambiguity into clear, executable plans.

  • Establish the evaluation and quality framework for AI systems — accuracy, safety, latency, cost — and the practices for fine-tune-vs-prompt and model-selection decisions.

  • Set the architecture for trust: traceability, auditability, reversibility, human-in-the-loop, and confidence signaling, as platform-wide standards.

  • Lead the design and delivery of large, cross-team initiatives that span multiple products and services; influence and align teams across the Visualization Solutions Org.

  • Drive adoption of shared agentic capabilities, frameworks, and patterns; raise engineering standards and ML maturity across the org.

  • Act as technical authority for critical decisions and trade-offs across performance, scalability, cost, and developer experience.

  • Mentor senior engineers, partner with Product/UX/Applied AI on long-term roadmap, and stay hands-on in the most critical areas of the system.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

  • 8–12+ years of software engineering, including significant work on large-scale or platform systems.

  • Deep, hands-on experience building and operating AI/ML systems in production — LLMs, agents, orchestration, RAG — including evaluation, model selection, and fine-tune-vs-prompt trade-offs.

  • Expert proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web technologies; strong architecture skills across distributed systems, APIs, and composable services.

  • Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence without direct authority.

  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently in highly ambiguous problem spaces.

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Deep familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent frameworks, and composable tool/capability architectures.

  • ML-systems / ML-infrastructure expertise — eval pipelines, vector/retrieval infrastructure, model serving, data platforms.

  • Experience building or evolving platform ecosystems (APIs, extensibility, developer platforms).

  • Track record of leading major technical transformations or introducing a new technical competency to an organization.

  • Expertise in 2D/3D visualization, rendering engines, or graphics technologies.

The Ideal Candidate

You are a deeply experienced engineer who thinks in systems and platforms and brings deep, hard-to-find AI/ML expertise. You are comfortable in ambiguity; you frame the right problems, and you lead complex initiatives from concept to production. You balance shipping with responsible AI rigor; you set standards others adopt, and you are a force multiplier who makes the whole team — and the org's AI capability — stronger.

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About Autodesk, Inc

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building.
Learn more about Autodesk, Inc
Size
12,600 employees
Market Cap
$40.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.2 billion
Founded
1982
5 Year Trend
+16.6%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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