Principal Data Engineer

Autodesk; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Software Developer to join their dynamic Research Engineering team. This role involves architecting and implementing innovative data management solutions that support strategic research projects. Collaborating with a diverse group of scientists and engineers, you will transform complex ideas into tangible prototypes, enhancing existing systems and creating new data pipelines. If you are passionate about cutting-edge technologies and eager to influence the future of software development, this opportunity offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will make a significant impact on real-world applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software and data engineering experience in enterprise applications.
• Deep knowledge of data architecture and platform designs is essential.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust data pipelines for rapid experimentation.
• Lead the design, build, test, and release of data solutions.
• Mentor and coach other engineers while promoting best practices.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Data architecture

Software architecture

Communication skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Machine learning

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Pandas

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

AWS Sagemaker

Jupyter

Tableau

PySpark

Airflow

Snowflake

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD85306

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Position Overview

Looking for an opportunity to use your skills and abilities to influence the strategic direction of a major software company? The Research Engineering team of Autodesk Research is hiring a Principal Software Developer to focus on data management. As a member of the Research Engineering team, you’ll prototype software solutions for strategic research projects, demonstrating innovations for Autodesk products.

You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and domain experts in manufacturing, robotics, architecture, computer vision, machine learning, and generative design. Much of your work will be architecting, designing and implementing prototype applications and systems. At other times you may enhance, repurpose or maintain existing systems. You’ll advise others on decisions related to technologies you are familiar with.

As a developer in Research Engineering, you’ll play a key role shepherding “what-if” ideas into tangible proof of concept demonstrations and prototypes. When you identify common technology needs within Autodesk Research, you’ll help plan and implement solutions to meet them.

Autodesk Research is a hotbed of rapidly evolving projects, experimenting with cutting edge technologies, and delivers solutions with real-world benefits for our customers and society. Research Engineering is a supportive, international team of experienced developers, UX designers and QA specialists.

Responsibilities

1. Design and implement robust data pipelines enabling rapid experimentation and insights
2. Take ownership of data pipelines, from data ingestion to analytics
3. Lead the design, build, test, and release of solutions to generate insight from a variety of data sources
4. Serve as a go-to person for data engineering solutions across multiple teams and projects, helping to overcome challenges, predict risks, and create mitigation plans.
5. Shape our data engineering practices and establish best practices
6. Identify recurring data engineering needs across multiple teams
7. Develop a roadmap of systematic solutions for both short-term and long-term
8. Serve as a role model, mentoring and coaching other engineers, applying best practices, and promoting achievements to external teams
9. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and deliver scalable solutions

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
2. 7+ years of hands-on software and data engineering development experiences in enterprise applications and systems
3. Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
4. Can make sound architectural decisions and work independently when necessary
5. Broad knowledge in software architecture concepts
6. Deep knowledge and experience with data architecture and data platform designs
7. Experience designing and building data science and ML models to generate insights from large data sets
8. Can quickly learn new tools and technologies and apply them appropriately with a high level of quality
9. Excellent written, visual, and oral communication skills
10. Can explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
11. Experience with Python, SQL, various databases, API implementation, AWS
12. Familiar with a variety of commercial and open source data engineering tools and technologies
13. Fast learner and excellent team player, experienced in work with different disciplines, domains problems and teams

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience working with large data sets of various kinds, such as time series data or 3D geometry data
2. Experience developing proof-of-concept and prototype software
3. Experience working in an AWS environment
4. Experience with time series data platforms (eg Timestream)
5. Work on a wide variety of challenging problems in information retrieval, natural language processing, unsupervised and supervised learning, crowdsourcing, and data enrichment
6. Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLFlow, AWS Sagemaker, R, Matlab, Jupyter, Tableau, PySpark, Airflow, DBT, Snowflake
7. C++, Java

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