Principal Software Development Engineer, Cloud Services & Applied AI

Autodesk•Montreal, QC

17d•CA$131,000 - CA$191,400•Hybrid

About The Position

Autodesk is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to join their Autodesk Fusion Manufacturing Data Model (MFGDM) team in Canada. This role is crucial for building the foundation of Manufacturing Cloud and the Data Framework, enabling a shift from traditional monolithic files to granular data. This will facilitate concurrency, integration, automation, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle. The Canadian team will focus on developing data extraction pipelines, defining data models, and building services to establish data centricity. This will empower product teams to use granular data for critical customer workflows, derive insights, and unlock the full value within files. The team will be responsible for developing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting data extraction solutions and services, collaborating with other MFGDM teams in Canada and globally. The ideal candidate is passionate about building, running, and owning resilient data services and platforms using various cloud technologies. Autodesk supports a FLEX working model, with a preference for Toronto or Montreal to co-locate with existing MFGDM teams.

Requirements

BS or higher in computer science or related technical discipline
8+ years of software development experience in commercialized products or big-scale systems
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong sense of ownership and competence in driving alignments
Fast learner and good team player
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Embrace changes and can work under pressure
Expert in JavaScript /Typescript / Node.js. Real project experience with these skills is a must
Expert in using AWS or similar Cloud platform like Azure. Real project experience with these skills is a must
Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools to ship production systems, and the engineering judgment to verify and correct AI output (code review rigor, debugging skill, ownership of correctness)

Nice To Haves

Willing to take challenges and stretch comfortable zone to grow
Experience in mentoring and coaching other developers is a strong plus
Rich hands-on and tech lead project experience in full stack Cloud services development is a needed
Extensive practical experience with MCP or equivalent standardized methods for linking models to tools and context

Responsibilities

Work within a scrum team with about 7-8 engineers
Lead to accomplish customer/project requirements from PO/PM
Drive and foster collaboration with other scrum teams located in Canada or in other sites around the world
As the primary developer, boldly lead to design, implement, test and deliver any MFGDM modules/components/services
Help team to remove obstacles, drive solutions for challenges, predict risks, and figure out mitigation plan
Communicate effectively with stakeholders in different phases in terms of requirements clarification, solution/planning review, status/progress sharing etc.
Consistently demonstrate the sense of engineering excellence and lead or contribute to make positive impact to teams’ deliveries with high quality
Lead Applied AI in product delivery: Use AI coding agents to accelerate delivery of production features and fixes, with rigorous verification (tests, CI, code review) and security-aware usage
Drive Applied AI best practice into team/product and promote our best practice/achievement to outside, so other engineers can adopt AI-first workflows productively and safely