Autodesk, Inc

Senior Software Engineer, AI Search

Autodesk, Inc$107K — $157K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with production services.
  • Strong skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, or backend engineering in other languages with Node.js knowledge.
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure, especially ECS and EC2.
  • Strong algorithms and mathematics skills, understanding complexity and data structures.
  • Solid grasp of object-oriented or functional design and problem-solving.
  • Experience with high-traffic distributed systems and observability practices.

Responsibilities

  • Independently design and maintain complex modules for streaming services.
  • Own end-to-end components, ensuring execution and collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Deploy and run services on AWS, primarily using ECS/EC2 and related services.
  • Improve system performance and resiliency through various strategies.
  • Troubleshoot production issues with limited supervision and participate in incident response.
  • Contribute to design discussions and input into technical planning.
  • Act as a team multiplier by mentoring and sharing knowledge.
  • Identify and automate improvements to eliminate inefficiencies.

Benefits

  • Culture of belonging and inclusivity.
  • Commitment to professional growth and continuous learning.
  • Opportunity to work on modern and scalable search technologies.
  • Involvement with cutting-edge AI-assisted development tools.
  • Flexible development practices with an Agile approach.
  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Requisition ID #

26WD99815

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own and deliver complex modules within our Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. You will work with system architects, principal engineers to build modern and scalable Search Platform that powers the search experiences across Autodesk's Industry Clouds - Fusion, Forma and Flow, and solve demanding distributed systems and algorithmic problems.

You will report to the Senior Software Development Manager based in Toronto.

How You Work
  • Result Oriented: You finish the job, then look for the next 10x improvement.
  • Continuous Learner: You explore new technologies, measure their impact, and share what you learn.
  • AI-Enabled Engineer: You use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to improve coding, testing, review, automation, and team productivity.
  • Build Trust: You communicate clearly, surface risks and trade-offs early, and follow through.
  • Team Player: You foster inclusive dialogue, seek diverse perspectives, and celebrate collective wins.


Responsibilities
  • Independently design, build, and maintain complex modules of our streaming services,using sound judgment on problems with diverse scope and significant unknowns.
  • Own components or initiatives end to end: drive execution, apply solid engineering practices, meet quality and operational standards, and collaborate with key stakeholders.
  • Operate what you build: deploy and run services on AWS across multiple regions, primarily using ECS/EC2, with supporting services such as S3, DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, Lambda, and CloudFront.
  • Improve performance and resiliency through caching and eviction strategies, retry and dead-letter recovery, memory-mapped or pager-based data access, and scaling policies, measuring impact with concrete data.
  • Troubleshoot and root-cause production issues with limited supervision; participate in incident response and drive follow-up improvements.
  • Contribute to design and architecture discussions, bring technology ideas to the team, and provide input into technical planning, roadmap discussions, and team goals.
  • Act as a multiplier within the team: review code, share knowledge, mentor more junior engineers, and help raise the bar on engineering practices.
  • Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and remove inefficiency, including through thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools and agents.
  • Occasionally help facilitate team rituals, planning, or delivery coordination.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience building and operating production services.
  • Strong production experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, or strong backend engineering experience in another language with demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a Node.js service stack.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, especially ECS and EC2, and AWS Bedrock, SageMaker and OpenSearch, and multi-environment deployment.
  • Strong algorithms and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, data structures, and performance trade-offs.
  • Solid grasp of object-oriented and/or functional design, concurrency, troubleshooting, and independent problem-solving.
  • Experience working with high-traffic distributed systems, including REST or WebSocket APIs, data interchange formats such as JSON or Protobuf, and basic observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing.
  • Familiarity with Agile development.
  • Openness to using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
  • Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure.
  • Exposure to Knowledge Graph/ Graph Databases.
  • Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS.
  • Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale.
  • Exposure to managing Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Harness.
  • Experience with observability tooling such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.


The Ideal Candidate
  • Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to others.
  • A team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution.
  • You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge.


Learn More

Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $107,000 and $157,300. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. 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
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

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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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