Software Development Manager, Generative AI

Position overview

Location and work model

• Hybrid work is supported; the posting references working near Autodesk offices in Toronto, Canada, or the East Coast United States.

Engineering and platform responsibilities

• Integrate AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows into front-end and back-end product flows.
• Define shared data representations and transformations that enable consistent, interoperable use across features.
• Deliver stable, documented integration surfaces and developer tooling for internal teams and partners.
• Promote API-first integration and contribute to platform efforts for consistent invocation, governance, and operational patterns.
• Own client-side and server-side features, including web UI, client integrations, and browser or desktop performance and visualization.
• Ensure services are observable and reliable, embedding governance, access controls, and safety practices with partner teams.

Team leadership and delivery

• Provide hands-on technical guidance and pragmatic architecture and implementation decisions.
• Coach engineers, support career development, and foster ownership, quality, and psychological safety.
• Set milestones, manage scope and dependencies, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.
• Partner with product, research, UX, security, privacy, and platform teams to shape safe and usable experiences.
• Promote CI/CD, automated quality checks, contract testing, and developer productivity tools; recruit and onboard engineers.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production software, with a record of coaching and growing individual contributors.
• Hands-on full-stack experience emphasizing front-end and client work with modern frameworks and tooling.
• Experience leading teams building customer-facing UI and client integrations, and shipping developer-facing integration surfaces or tools.
• Experience working with ML/AI or research teams to productionize capabilities.
• Practical familiarity with cloud-native development, CI/CD, and operational practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

Preferred qualifications

• Orchestration frameworks or model-invocation patterns experience is a plus.
• JavaScript/TypeScript, React or equivalent, component architecture, and frontend test automation are preferred.
• Performance-critical client work, 3D visualization, or desktop/plugin integrations are preferred.
• Browser developer tools, logging, performance monitoring, testing frameworks, and security/privacy familiarity are preferred.
• AEC or adjacent design/engineering workflow experience is a plus.

Salary transparency

• For Canada-based roles, the expected starting base salary range is CAD 140,000–205,700; offers depend on experience and geographic location and may exceed the range.
• Compensation may include annual cash bonuses, sales commissions where applicable, stock grants, and benefits.

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