Distinguished AI Architect, Autodesk
AEC Construction
$171-306.1k
Canada-BC based roles: $176,000 and $257,400
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
Open for applications
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$171-306.1k
Canada-BC based roles: $176,000 and $257,400
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators with design and make technology so they can achieve the new possible.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a senior/director level individual contributor
- Deep experience designing and deploying large-scale AI systems using GenAI and traditional ML
- Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure
- Experience with multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and AI governance
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and executive audiences
- A track record of leading, influencing and driving technology strategy
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Distinguished AI Architect to lead the AI vision for AEC Construction. This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how AI transforms construction—moving the industry from manual workflows to intelligent, predictive, and autonomous systems
- You will be the AI technical authority for Construction and related AECO products, working closely with senior leaders to define strategy, guide investment, and deliver AI solutions with real-world impact
- Define the long-term AI architecture and technical vision for construction solutions
- Establish scalable architecture patterns and standards for AI systems
- Bring together GenAI, machine learning, and rule-based systems into cohesive platforms
- Ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business and customer value
- Opportunity to shape AI strategy for construction at global scale
- Solve novel, high-impact problems in a mission-critical industry
- Design multi-agent AI workflows that plan, reason, validate, and act
- Define MCP-based orchestration and agent-to-agent collaboration patterns
- Integrate Construction Assistant experiences across shared AI platforms
- Define agent governance models for memory, planning, safety, and escalation
- Modernize and scale existing ML solutions into a unified AI framework
- Define best practices for LLMs, prompting, tool use, and retrieval
- Apply classical ML for forecasting, optimization, risk detection, and prediction
- Design hybrid reasoning systems combining ML, rules, and generative AI
- Guide model evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Architect construction-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, and reasoning frameworks
- Model relationships across scope, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, and resources
- Enable domain-aware AI that understands construction workflows and trade complexity
- Solve domain-specific challenges that generic AI platforms cannot
- Partner with Platform Services teams on shared AI infrastructure
- Align Construction AI systems with enterprise Trusted AI, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks
- Drive reuse of platform capabilities while enabling domain-specific innovation
- Influence platform AI roadmap based on construction use cases and requirements
Our take
Autodesk supplies software that enables teams to collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D, serving a range of industries such as engineering, product design, and entertainment. Founded in 1982, the company first delivered the AutoCAD system, a commercial computer-aided design and drafting software application, that is still seeing updated releases to this day.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software across various industries and applications – in some of which it remains nearly irreplaceable. The company has an impressive history of diversification, which it continues to this day. For example, the 2022 acquisition of Moxion, a cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers, bolstered the company’s offerings for the media and entertainment industry.
The rise of AR and VR technologies is driving modern growth in the computer-aided design market, creating space for Autodesk to expand further. Additionally, a shift to the popular SaaS model positions the company to seek further success.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew Anagnost
(CEO & President)Has worked at the company since 1997, including as CMO and Senior Vice President of Business Strategy and Marketing. Became CEO in 2017.
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