Director of AI Platform Engineering

Autodesk, Inc; Montreal; On-site; CAD 173,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a global team in building AI-enabled platform capabilities for SaaS products. You will steer technical direction, architecture, and delivery of scalable services, data solutions, and AI-driven experiences.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and architecture leaders, grow engineering talent, foster open-source practices, and champion a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement across Autodesk's software stack.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with significant leadership.
• End-to-end software lifecycle expertise from strategy to operations.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale software, cloud services or SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of software releases and strategic initiatives.
• Define technical vision and actively contribute to architecture, design, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Architecture to influence roadmaps.
• Solve complex technical challenges and guide critical architectural decisions.
• Promote AI-augmented software engineering practices and engineering excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML awareness

Software architecture

Java & Spring Boot

C++/ .NET

REST / GraphQL / gRPC

AWS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Architecture, or related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Autodesk is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a global team in building AI-enabled platform capabilities for SaaS products. You will steer technical direction, architecture, and delivery of scalable services, data solutions, and AI-driven experiences.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and architecture leaders, grow engineering talent, foster open-source practices, and champion a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement across Autodesk's software stack.