Senior Engineering Manager, Real-Time & Streaming AI Systems

Autodesk•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Personalized Experiences Team is a centralized Personalization group working closely with product line development teams across the company to democratize ML/Analytics across all Autodesk products. We are on a mission to build a centralized Personalization platform that powers insights, recommendations, proactivity across all Autodesk products. You will be working on a myriad of problems related to building data products that provides ML/prescriptive recommendations to Autodesk Users. We are looking for a technically savvy Engineering manager with a passion for building scalable services and who is eager to help us bring platform thinking in day-to-day product engineering practices. We are seeking individuals who are attracted by complicated problems, who can think creatively and work hard to help us solve them. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, and emerging agentic AI technologies. You will lead development of systems that not only analyze data streams but also reason, synthesize, and are used for powering intelligent assistants and workflows embedded directly within Autodesk products.

Requirements

4+ years of technical leadership or management experience in software engineering
8+ years of relevant industry experience in software engineering and data analytics fields
Experience in building scalable data processing applications, infrastructure and production services
Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
Experience in cloud-based technologies and platforms
Experience in mentoring and coaching technical leads, software and data engineers
Experience in scaling and re-architecting data platforms and infrastructure through orders of magnitude of growth
Experience with SQL & No-SQL database technologies like MySQL, RedShift, MongoDB or similar
Experience working with big data environments such as Athena, BigQuery, Snowflake, Hadoop (Hive, Spark)
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure.
Understanding of LLMs and agentic workflows
Experience or interest in integrating AI into real-time systems
Ability to build production-grade AI/recommendation systems

Responsibilities

Hire, challenge and retain a diverse, inclusive and highly effective team of engineers
Drive the vision and roadmap of Personalization Platform to speed up adoption of the Personalized Experiences across the portfolio of all Autodesk products
Partner closely with Applied AI, Product & other Platform teams
Ensure your team ships services constantly at a high quality
Participate in the definition of future technology architecture and strategy
Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
Work with product managers on defining strategic directions, and with technical program managers on executing high-impact initiatives
Work with stakeholders to define and track project milestones and communicate progress to all relevant parties
Identify risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes