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Position Overview
The Director of Engineering for AI Platform is accountable for the modern, AI-first experience layer that defines Autodesk’s unified, workflow-first front experience.
This leader is responsible for the AI Platform experience stack — including the agentic experience surface, workflow orchestration canvas, and dynamic interfaces. The mandate is to deliver a cohesive, intelligent, and trustworthy end-to-end experience that turns user intent into outcomes across products and domains.
This is not a feature leadership role. It is platform-level experience leadership. The Director ensures that modern engineering practices, AI-native architectures, and cross-product orchestration come together as a single, coherent system.
The role requires deep collaboration with Product and Experience (Design). A strong product mindset is essential, and prior product management experience is preferred.
You’ll work with teammates across the globe and will travel up to 15% of the time for face-to-face meetings like conferences, team offsites, and team visits. This role is hybrid, remote, or in office based in the US.
Responsibilities
Experience Accountability
Accountable for architecture and delivery of the AI Platform experience stack: agentic interfaces, workflow editor, project memory, and dynamic UI surfaces
Ensure a cohesive, modern, AI-native experience built across cross-product and cross-industry workflows
Accountable for usability, coherence, performance, and trust—not just backend capabilities
Embed traceability, auditability, reversibility, and measurable autonomy into all agentic workflows
AI-First Development
Lead AI-first architecture and development practices across the experience layer
Deliver agentic orchestration, context retention across sessions, and composable capability invocation
Implement incremental trust models (human-in-the-loop, review gates, confidence signaling)
Champion AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity, quality, and experimentation speed
Workflow-Oriented Platform Engineering
Build systems that support workflow-first orchestration rather than product-silo execution
Enable domain teams to integrate capabilities as composable modules that can be invoked consistently across surfaces
Ensure integration once, composition everywhere across AI Platform and product UIs
Collaboration with Product & Experience
Partner deeply with Product and Design to define and deliver prioritized critical user journeys
Contribute to roadmap strategy and tradeoff decisions with a strong product lens
Drive rapid experimentation loops (hypothesis → instrumentation → learning → iteration)
Ensure alignment between engineering execution and measurable workflow outcomes
Organizational Leadership
Build and lead a high-performing, AI-native engineering organization
Establish clear goals, success metrics, and outcome accountability
Scale leadership across managers and senior engineers
Operate effectively across domains (AEC, PDMS, IME, AOS) and platform stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years leading engineering managers or senior technical leaders
Proven experience delivering modern, cloud-native platform capabilities at scale
Strong architectural expertise in distributed systems, APIs, composable services, and modern frontend architectures
Demonstrated experience building AI/ML-powered user experiences (LLMs, agents, orchestration, RAG systems, or similar)
Track record of delivering cross-product or platform-level initiatives that require high stakeholder alignment
Experience driving measurable customer outcomes through workflow-oriented engineering
Excellent communication and executive presence; ability to influence across engineering, product, and design leadership
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading AI-first or agentic platform initiatives
Prior product management experience or strong product strategy exposure
Experience building dynamic or generative UI systems
Familiarity with MCP-style integration models or composable tool architectures
Experience scaling engineering organizations through platform transformations
Experience working across multiple industries or domain ecosystems
This role defines how modern engineering delivers experience: AI-native, workflow-first, composable, and deeply integrated with Product and Design to ship outcomes—not just software.
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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!
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
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