Senior Applied AI & RAG Developer

Autodesk; United States; Remote; USD 79,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in Canada

Professional development

Product-focused AI environment

Technical leadership

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Developer to lead data-driven AI initiatives and deliver AI capabilities into customer-facing products. You will design RAG-based solutions, build retrieval systems, and prototype production-ready AI features while evaluating performance and collaborating with product and data teams.

The role requires strong AI/ML development background, expertise in RAG and retrieval, and proven technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Applied AI/ML development experience
• Strong understanding of RAG concepts and retrieval
• Experience designing and evaluating AI systems
• Experience building production AI solutions
• Strong programming skills and data analysis experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership abilities

Responsibilities

• Design RAG-based AI solutions for products
• Develop robust retrieval systems
• Build AI prototypes and proofs of concept
• Evaluate model performance and iterate
• Analyze user interactions with AI outputs
• Push tested features into production
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship
• Collaborate with product and data teams

Skills

Applied AI/ML

RAG

Information retrieval

AI system evaluation

Production AI

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

Retrieval systems

Job description

Autodesk is hiring a Senior Applied AI/ML Developer to lead data-driven solutions for RAG programs and deliver AI capabilities into customer-facing products.

About Autodesk

Autodesk creates design and engineering software and is developing data-driven AI experiences using retrieval, evaluation and machine learning technologies.

What you'll do

• Design RAG-based AI solutions.
• Develop retrieval systems.
• Build AI prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Evaluate AI model performance.
• Analyze user interactions with AI outputs.
• Develop machine learning capabilities.
• Push tested AI features into production.
• Provide technical leadership.
• Mentor engineering team members.
• Collaborate with product and data teams.

What we're looking for

• Applied AI or ML development experience.
• Strong understanding of RAG.
• Information retrieval experience.
• Experience evaluating AI systems.
• Strong programming skills.
• Experience building production AI solutions.
• Data analysis experience.
• Strong technical leadership abilities.

Benefits

• CAD 110,000-$155,000 estimated annual salary.
• Remote work in Canada.
• RAG engineering experience.
• Applied AI development.
• Machine learning projects.
• Technical leadership.
• Professional development.
• Product-focused AI environment.