Software Development Manager, Generative AI

Position overview

Work location

• Hybrid work is supported; the posting describes working near Autodesk offices in Toronto or on the East Coast of the United States.

Responsibilities

• Guide architecture and implementation decisions and lead frontend, client, and full-stack engineering delivery.
• Coach engineers, conduct performance and career conversations, and foster ownership, quality, and psychological safety.
• Translate product priorities into milestones, manage dependencies and scope, and deliver predictably.
• Partner with product and research teams to deliver safe, usable, performant experiences while balancing UX, latency, and cost.
• Advance API-first integration and platform efforts, including consistent invocation, governance, and operational patterns.
• Lead maintainable shared data representations and transformations for interoperability.
• Deliver stable, documented integration surfaces and developer tools with reliable versioning and developer experience.
• Ensure services are observable and reliable; embed governance, access controls, and safety with security, privacy, and platform partners.
• Promote CI/CD, automated quality checks, contract testing, and developer productivity tooling.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to scope work and define acceptable behavior and failure modes.
• Recruit and onboard engineers and participate in interview calibration and hiring.

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 frontend and client work with modern frameworks and tooling.
• Experience leading teams that build customer-facing UI and client integrations.
• Experience designing and shipping integration surfaces and developer tools or libraries for internal teams or external partners.
• Experience working with ML/AI or research teams to productionize capabilities and familiarity with their operational and UX considerations.
• Practical familiarity with cloud-native development, CI/CD, and operational practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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/rendering, or desktop/plugin integrations are preferred.
• Browser developer tools, logging, and performance monitoring familiarity is preferred.
• Client and server unit, integration, and contract testing experience is preferred.
• Security, privacy, and compliance familiarity for integrations and developer surfaces is preferred.
• AEC or adjacent design and engineering workflow experience is a plus.

Salary transparency

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