Principal Software Development Engineer, Cloud Services & Applied AI
Autodesk2 LocationsPosted 2 March 2026
Job Description
Job Requisition ID # 26WD95721 The French translation can be found below!/La traduction en français se trouve plus bas! Position Overview Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) makes software for people who make things. We are a global leader in design and make software for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers have built with our software. At Autodesk, we exist to turn ideas into new realities that shape a thriving future. Our software and services harness emerging technologies—such as additive manufacturing (3D printing), artificial intelligence, generative design, and robotics—that give companies and individuals the power to work more quickly, effectively, and sustainably throughout the entire project lifecycle. Autodesk Fusion is the first 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB tool of its kind, unifying design, engineering, electronics, and manufacturing to connect your entire product development process into one cloud-based platform. We are growing our Autodesk Fusion Manufacturing Data Model (MFGDM) team in Canada, and looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to join our team. MFGDM is the foundation of Manufacturing Cloud and core to Data Framework to build manufacturing data model and cloud services to shift from traditional monolithic file to granular data and then to enable concurrency, integration, automation and collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle with granular data, making it possible to empower customers to design and make better products faster. The team we are growing in Canada will focus on building fundamental data extraction pipeline in MFGDM, defining the data model and building related services to extract valuable data assets and establish data centricity, hence enabling product team using the granulated data to fulfill critical customer workflows, building insights from the data, and releasing full values buried in files. The team will develop, deploy, maintain and support data extraction solutions & services. The team need collaborate with other MFGDM teams in Canada and with extended teams cross GEOs. Now, we are an autonomic, T-shape, and energetic group. The whole team effort is an essential part for achieving corporate data strategy and winning the race to the next gen Design & Manufacturing Platform. If you are profoundly passionate about building, running, and owning resilient Data services and platforms utilizing a variety of Cloud technologies, then this position will be a perfect landing for you! Autodesk supports FLEX working model, while Toronto or Montreal is preferred to co-locate with existing MFGDM teams. Responsibilities Work within a scrum team with about 7-8 engineers Can lead to accomplish customer/project requirements from PO/PM Can drive and foster the 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. Can help team to remove obstacles, drive solutions for challenges, predict risks, and figure out mitigation plan Can communicate effectively with stakeholders in different phases in terms of requirements clarification, solution/planning review, status/progress sharing etc. Can consistently demonstrate the sense of engineering excellence and lead or contribute to make positive impact to teams’ deliveries with high quality. E.g., remove the gap in automation framework, build tool to monitor services health, leverage data analysis in risk/gap assessment, optimize operating process Can 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 Applie ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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