Senior Developer Advocate (API's)
Role Overview
Join Autodesk's Developer Advocacy & Support team to evangelize, enable, and support developers building solutions on Autodesk Platform Services (APS) and related Autodesk APIs. You will combine hands-on engineering, learning content creation, and technical support to accelerate partner and customer success.
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Position Overview
Join Autodesk's Developer Advocacy & Support team to evangelize, enable, and support developers building solutions on Autodesk Platform Services (APS) and related Autodesk APIs. You will combine hands-on engineering, learning content creation, and technical support to accelerate partner and customer success.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality sample applications, SDKs, and reference code demonstrating best practices.
- Produce developer-facing content: tutorials, how-to guides, blog posts, and short demos for community and events.
- Provide technical support and triage for partners and customers integrating APS APIs; reproduce issues, and coordinate fixes with engineering.
- Work with product and engineering teams to influence API design, improve developer experience, and maintain runbooks and onboarding flows.
- Deliver reference implementations and example code for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/clients so agents and tools can safely access Autodesk data.
- Leverage generative AI tools to accelerate developer deliverables (e.g., prototypes, sample generation, documentation drafts), while ensuring quality and security of outputs.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years software engineering or developer-facing experience (web/cloud/native).
- Hands-on experience with REST APIs, SDKs, and modern web/cloud stacks; ability to produce clean, tested sample code.
- Strong understanding of authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth2 flows, service accounts) and secure integration practices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort presenting to technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior developer advocacy, developer support, or partner-facing engineering experience.
- Experience with APS/Forge, or familiarity with Autodesk product APIs (Revit, ACC/BIM Automation, Fusion).
- Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Python or .NET; Docker and cloud deployment patterns.
- Familiarity with MCP, MCP server/client patterns, or agentic AI integration concepts is a plus.
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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!
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