Seeking a Software Engineer with expertise in generative AI and Autodesk Revit API to lead software development and testing, collaborating across teams to enhance AEC industry tools.
Job Requisition ID #
25WD88925
Software Engineer: Generative AI. AEC Revit API. Remote US or Hybrid
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, Construction Cloud—and Forma, our new Industry Cloud.
As a Full-Stack Software Developer on the AEC Solutions group, you will join a team of technologists to help build foundation models and generative AI tools for the AEC industry. You will collaborate across organizations with a versatile group of AI Researchers, ML Engineers, Software Architects, and Experience Designers to develop generative AI solutions that enhance AEC customer workflows.
Location: We support hybrid work, and you work near our Boston, Massachusetts or Toronto, Canada offices.
Responsibilities
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, Construction Cloud—and Forma, our new Industry Cloud.
As a Full-Stack Software Developer on the AEC Solutions group, you will join a team of technologists to help build foundation models and generative AI tools for the AEC industry. You will collaborate across organizations with a versatile group of AI Researchers, ML Engineers, Software Architects, and Experience Designers to develop generative AI solutions that enhance AEC customer workflows.
Location: We support hybrid work, and you work near our Boston, Massachusetts or Toronto, Canada offices.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineers to design, develop and test working software
- Contribute to the implementation of individual software components, with a high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices
- Lead 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 test automation, continuous integration, and deployment processes together with everyone else in the development team
Minimum Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Autodesk Revit API and experience working on Revit plugins or Add-ons
- Front-end web development experience, building scalable web applications using UI libraries such as React and working with Typescript/Javascript
- Previous back-end service and API development using common protocols such as HTTP, grpc, or websockets
- Expertise with Git and GitHub for source control and collaboration within a team
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with OpenGL/WebGL or other graphics programming interfaces, including graphics libraries such as three.js
- Experience in the AEC industry, using Autodesk products such as Revit, AutoCAD, or Forma, and AEC data schemas and standards, especially using the product APIs for plugin development
- Experience with browser dev tools, logging libraries, and performance monitoring.
- Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, etc
- Familiarity with Machine Learning practices
The Ideal Candidate
- Easily collaborates with other members of an Agile team to get products and components developed and completed
- Constantly strives to learn new technologies and methodologies
- Is adaptable, customer-focused, and seek new ways to solve hard problems
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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