Software Engineering Manager, Agentic Acceleration /AI Search

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98079

Welcome to Autodesk!

The world’s innovators, designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make a better world for all. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform empowers everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and technology we rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Everything around us is made using Autodesk software.

Autodesk’s leading Design and Make Platform offers customers the technology to help them create the world around us, and the critical insights and data to deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet.

At Autodesk, we celebrate all the real-world problem solvers, creative rebels, and innovators who are driven to improve the reality around us. Because we don’t believe in waiting for progress; we believe in making it. When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future?

Join us!

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager for Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. In this role, you will help to build modern and scalable Search Platform that powers the search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma and Flow.

As an ideal candidate, you have led teams developing scalable cloud services in a fast-paced, agile environment. You know how to nurture talent, develop/advocate best practices, foster open communication, and provide guidance and mentoring for effective and high-performing teams to deliver high-quality solutions to their customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Key Business Outcome / Initiatives. Accountable for one or more large scale key results. Lead and contribute to development of company objectives and long term strategy of the services

• Drive resiliency best practices

• Collaborate with Product Managers and other stakeholders to drive business outcomes. Ensure timely delivery of high quality software meeting customer needs

• As a leader, inspire, motivate and coach team members to achieve maximum productivity, optimal creativity and efficiency

• Mentor team members to develop their careers and to achieve individual success

• Hire, develop and mentor top engineering talent

• Enhance engineering efficiency; observing the team, identifying opportunities, and influencing the improvement

• Manage the unknowns and help teams manage through the uncertainties

• Drive customer-centricity and engineering excellence in teams

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience

• 12+ years of hands on experience in the industry involving designing and developing cloud scale and highly available server applications and services

• 5+ years of experience in leading, mentoring, and managing development teams, or other similar leadership roles (managing cross-functional team members from Software Engineers to Principal Engineers to Architects)

• Exceptional proficiency in Java or similar programming language

• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS

• Experience developing large, highly scalable, available and resilient cloud data systems

• Experience managing senior level engineering talent and geo distributed teams

• Experience in hiring key talent and setting up teams for success

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch

• Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure

• Experience in monitoring and improving reliability of a complex system at scale.

• Aware of Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms

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

• Self-starter who can come up to speed quickly and identify the problems that need to be solved and drive the solutions for them

• You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge

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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 transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $110,300 and $205,700. 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.

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