Principal Software Engineer -(C++, Python)

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93951

Position Overview

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. This is an exciting time to join us on our multi-year journey to disrupt the Design to Manufacture world with Fusion by delivering unprecedented value and converging workflows with cloud-based technology. We are rapidly combining many worlds' leading technologies and teams into the Fusion family.

The role is with one of the Fusion teams in the Design and Manufacturing Organization within the Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions division. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Pune-based scrum team and contribute to the development of AI/ML features in Fusion.

Job Responsibilities

• Ship production-grade AI features according to XD design. Ensure features meet quality, performance, and reliability standards across different OS platforms, and cloud environments.
• Establish telemetry, observability, and monitoring for production AI services.
• Implement guardrails for data privacy, responsible AI practices, and ethical model usage.

• Establish engineering practices for AI and maintain a clean, performant codebase.

• Fully own the quality of work delivered, have a strong sense of ownership for delivering excellence.

• Be proactive in writing the technical design documents, participating in design and code reviews, developing estimates for the tasks, and documenting code.

• Work closely and iteratively with developers, quality team, and user experience designers.

• Work with an extended team of software developers, quality team, and product designers in India and other worldwide engineering sites.

• Flexible and respond quickly to multiple priorities under changing conditions.

• Mentor and coach other team members.

• Passionate about customer success.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

• 8+ years of industry experience building and delivering robust, performant, and maintainable commercial applications.

• 2+ years of experience specifically focused on building AI related workflows, or launching AI products.
• Proficiency technical expertise in C++ and Python.
• Experience with Generative AI & LLMs, prompt engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, etc.

• Tech Lead experience in previous roles.

• Experience with building AI-powered workflows (prompt design, guardrails, evaluation) and integrating AI into complex desktop/cloud products.

• Experience with system-level thinking and architecture designing.

• Experience in CAD software development

• Experience with Agile software development practices

• Ability to design microservices and deploy via containerization (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, SageMaker, Postman, Splunk, Dynatrace etc. is a plus

• Experience with developing large desktop applications in a modular, componentized manner