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Boston, MA, USA, United States of America
Onsite
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POSITION OVERVIEW
The work we do at Autodesk touches nearly every person on the planet. By creating software tools for making buildings, machines, and even the latest movies, we influence and empower some of the most creative people in the world to solve problems that matter.
Autodesk is seeking a Senior ML Engineer, ML Systems and Infrastructure to design and scale the systems that enable machine learning across research and product development. You will help build the infrastructure behind large-scale data pipelines, distributed training systems, evaluation frameworks, and production ML workflows that support foundation models and ML-powered product features.
This role is ideal for an engineer who is deeply interested in scalable systems and production-grade ML infrastructure. You will operate independently across multiple parts of the stack and help define strong engineering practices for reliability, performance, and maintainability.
This role is fully remote-friendly, with team members distributed across the US and Canada.
Location: US or Canada Remote, East Coast
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design and build scalable systems for ML training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
Develop and improve data pipelines that process large-scale structured and semi-structured technical datasets
Optimize distributed workflows for performance, reliability, resource utilization, and cost efficiency
Build platform capabilities such as experiment tracking, model versioning, checkpointing, reproducibility, and observability
Contribute to model deployment, inference services, and production monitoring workflows
Improve data quality, lineage, provenance, and operational transparency across ML pipelines
Contribute to architecture and design discussions across the team
Identify and resolve bottlenecks in data, compute, orchestration, and observability layers
Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and knowledge sharing
Collaborate closely with researchers, product engineers, and platform partners to turn ML workflows into robust engineering systems
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
At least 3 to 4 years of industry experience building and operating production software, ML systems, distributed infrastructure, or large-scale data pipelines
Strong experience in software engineering, distributed systems, backend systems, or ML infrastructure
Strong proficiency in Python and experience delivering production-quality systems
Experience designing and operating scalable data or compute pipelines
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, observability, and release quality practices
Ability to independently drive technical execution on complex work with limited oversight
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience building data pipelines for large-scale structured and semi-structured technical datasets
Experience with data lineage, provenance, governance, and responsible data usage in ML systems
Experience with distributed data processing and orchestration systems such as Ray, Airflow, Spark, or similar platforms
Experience with model deployment, inference services, monitoring, and observability for production ML systems
Experience building ML-ready representations for geometry, graph, hierarchical, or multimodal data
Experience with distributed ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Lightning, DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, or similar
Familiarity with AEC workflows, design data, BIM/CAD formats, or Autodesk products
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
Thinks like a systems engineer and executes like a strong software developer
Can balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health
Brings strong technical judgment and ownership
Improves team effectiveness through mentoring and engineering rigor
Enjoys solving scaling, performance, and reliability challenges
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.