Senior AI-Powered Full-Stack Engineer

Autodesk; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 123,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk in Vancouver, Canada seeks a Senior Software Developer to build AI-powered personalization features across products, including Autodesk Assistant. You will work with TypeScript, Electron, and Python to create reliable, extensible desktop and service applications for a scalable AI-driven experience.

Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, and product teams to design contracts for APIs, plugins, and internal interfaces, while upholding tests, CI, and maintainable code as AI

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud
• 5+ years building and maintaining large, long-lived software applications
• Strong TypeScript skills and solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience designing and working with complex applications, APIs, or distributed systems
• Experience with Electron or comparable desktop application architecture
• Python experience, especially where Python integrates with a larger application or service layer
• Strong fundamentals in software design: separation of concerns, dependency management, API design, contract design, versioning, and incremental evolution
• Good problem-solving skills, sound engineering judgment, and an appreciation for clean, maintainable code
• Comfort writing tests and using automation to enforce architectural conventions
• Strong written communication: proposals, architecture decision records, design notes, and developer-facing docs

Responsibilities

• Design and build features for AI-powered personalization across Autodesk products, including the next-generation Autodesk Assistant experience
• Develop and improve desktop applications, APIs, and supporting services
• Build modular, extensible systems that make it easier to introduce new capabilities as products evolve
• Explore practical integrations for AI technologies, including LLMs and intelligent agents
• Design clear contracts for plugins, manifests, registries, SDKs, public APIs, and internal interfaces where they are truly needed
• Protect dependency direction, data ownership, public contracts, and package boundaries
• Identify architectural drift, cycles, leaky abstractions, and coupling risks, then propose practical fixes
• Write short technical proposals, architecture notes, invariants, and decision records before meaningful changes
• Improve developer tools, workflows, scaffolding, lint rules, tests, ratchets, and CI checks so the team can build and deliver with confidence
• Work effectively with both human teammates and AI coding agents by keeping code, docs, and project layout predictable

Job description

Autodesk in Vancouver, Canada seeks a Senior Software Developer to build AI-powered personalization features across products, including Autodesk Assistant. You will work with TypeScript, Electron, and Python to create reliable, extensible desktop and service applications for a scalable AI-driven experience.

Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, and product teams to design contracts for APIs, plugins, and internal interfaces, while upholding tests, CI, and maintainable code as AI