Software Development Manager, Generative AI

Autodesk•Montreal, QC

12d•CA$140,000 - CA$205,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Autodesk is building cloud-scale software, data platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities that help customers design, build, and operate the world around them. As the Software Development Manager, you will be the frontline manager for a full-stack engineering team responsible for integrating our AI capabilities and agentic workflows into product experiences. Your team will define shared data representations, deliver developer-facing integration surfaces, and design the client and server components that let products and partners safely invoke and orchestrate automated assistants and flows. You will translate product priorities into engineering plans, coach and grow engineers, and ensure predictable delivery of production-quality solutions. Join us in transforming the AEC industry and shaping the future of design and construction. Make an impact and help build a new team from the ground up. You will report to a Senior Software Development Manager in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Solutions Team. We support hybrid work, and you work near our Toronto, Canada offices or East Coast United States.

Requirements

7+ years professional software engineering experience delivering production software with a record of coaching and growing individual contributors
Hands-on full-stack experience with an emphasis on front-end and client work (modern front-end frameworks and tooling)
Demonstrated experience leading teams that build customer-facing UI and client integrations
Experience designing and shipping integration surfaces and developer tools or libraries for internal teams or external partners
Experience working with or alongside ML/AI or research teams to productionize capabilities, and familiarity with the unique operational and UX considerations that such work introduces
Practical familiarity with cloud-native development, CI/CD, and operational practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to work cross-functionally

Nice To Haves

Direct experience designing or operating orchestration frameworks or model-invocation patterns is a plus
Strong front-end engineering skills: JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or equivalent), component architecture, and frontend test automation
Experience with performance-critical client work, visualization/3D rendering (WebGL/OpenGL/three.js), or desktop/plugin integrations (C#/.NET or equivalent)
Familiarity with browser developer tools, logging, and performance monitoring
Experience with unit, integration, and contract testing frameworks for both client and server code
Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations when designing integrations and developer surfaces
Domain experience in AEC or adjacent design/engineering workflows is a plus
Pragmatic, hands-on engineering leader who can guide architecture and roll up your sleeves to help the team deliver
Ability to recruit and identify top talent
Passion for being a mentor and a teacher
Understanding of how to translate ambiguous AI and research goals into practical, safe engineering plans
Ability to motivate your team to achieve their goals
Curious and passionate about solving complex problems in new domains
Easily communicate progress and build trust with a diverse set of partners

Responsibilities

Directly manage engineers responsible for integrating AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows into frontend and backend product flows
Define and implement shared, granular data representations that enable consistent use across features
Deliver integration surfaces and developer-facing tooling that make capabilities accessible to product teams and partners
Operate with an API-first mindset and contributing to platform initiatives (including model-control platform efforts) that provide consistent invocation, governance, and operational patterns for capability use across the company
Deliver both client-side and server-side functionality and owning the end-to-end experience for the features your team ships
Lead client-side and front-end engineering work — web UI, client integrations, and performance/visualization work that runs in browsers or desktop clients
Provide hands-on technical guidance and help the team make pragmatic architecture and implementation decisions that balance delivery speed and long-term maintainability
Lead and coach engineers who implement customer-facing UI and client integrations. Own client architecture and performance tradeoffs, collaborate with UX/design, and ensure frontend quality (responsiveness, accessibility, cross-platform compatibility, and performance)
Run regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and career development for individual contributors. Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and psychological safety
Turn product priorities into clear milestones, manage scope and dependencies, and ensure the team delivers on schedule with high quality
Work closely with product and research partners to translate evolving capabilities into safe, usable, and performant product experiences. Make sensible tradeoffs for UX, latency, and cost
Champion an API-first approach for integration surfaces and contribute to platform initiatives (including MCP efforts) that provide consistent invocation, governance, and operational patterns for capability use across the company.
Lead the team to design maintainable shared data representations and transformations so other teams can reliably consume and extend what your team builds
Own the delivery of stable, well-documented integration surfaces and developer tooling that enable internal and partner use — emphasizing reliability, versioning, and a strong developer experience
Ensure services are observable and reliable. Partner with security/privacy and platform teams to embed governance, access controls, and safety practices into feature flows
Promote CI/CD, automated quality checks, contract testing, and developer tooling to increase throughput while maintaining safety and quality
Work closely with Product, ML/Research, UX, Security/Privacy, and Platform teams to scope work, define acceptable behavior and failure modes for flows, and deliver integrated solutions
Recruit and onboard engineers, strengthen front-end and full-stack capabilities, and participate in interview calibration and hiring