Software Development Manager, Generative AI

Job Requisition ID # 26WD97217 Position Overview 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. Report: You will report to a Senior Software Development Manager in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Solutions Team. Location: We support hybrid work, and you work near our Toronto, Canada offices or East Coast United States. Team Scope You will directly manage engineers responsible for: Integrating AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows into frontend and backend product flows Defining and implementing shared, granular data representations that enable consistent use across features Delivering integration surfaces and developer-facing tooling that make capabilities accessible to product teams and partners Operating 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 Delivering both client-side and server-side functionality and owning the end-to-end experience for the features your team ships Leading client-side and front-end engineering work — web UI, client integrations, and performance/visualization work that runs in browsers or desktop clients Responsibilities Technical & day-to-day leadership. Provide hands-on technical guidance and help the team make pragmatic architecture and implementation decisions that balance delivery speed and long-term maintainability Front-end & client ownership. 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) People leadership & coaching. Run regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and career development for individual contributors. Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and psychological safety Deliver predictable results. Turn product priorities into clear milestones, manage scope and dependencies, and ensure the team delivers on schedule with high quality Integration & product focus. 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 API-first & platform orientation. 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. (High-level only; implementation details are intentionally broad.) Shared data & interoperability. Lead the team to design maintainable shared data representations and transformations so other teams can reliably consume and extend what your team builds Developer-facing surfaces & tooling. 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 Operational excellence & ... (truncated, view full listing at source)