Autodesk

Distinguished AI Architect – AEC Construction

Autodesk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoAlabamaAlaskaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $189,000 - $305,800 per year

About the role

  • Lead AI Architecture & Strategy
  • Define the long-term AI architecture and technical vision for construction solutions
  • Establish scalable architecture patterns and standards for AI systems
  • Bring together GenAI, machine learning, and rule-based systems into cohesive platforms
  • Ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business and customer value
  • Opportunity to shape AI strategy for construction at global scale
  • Solve novel, high-impact problems in a mission-critical industry
  • Design Agentic & Assistant-Based Experiences
  • Architect the evolution of an AI-powered Construction Assistant
  • Design multi-agent AI workflows that plan, reason, validate, and act
  • Define MCP-based orchestration and agent-to-agent collaboration patterns
  • Integrate Construction Assistant experiences across shared AI platforms
  • Define agent governance models for memory, planning, safety, and escalation
  • Build Modern AI & ML Systems
  • Modernize and scale existing ML solutions into a unified AI framework
  • Define best practices for LLMs, prompting, tool use, and retrieval
  • Apply classical ML for forecasting, optimization, risk detection, and prediction
  • Design hybrid reasoning systems combining ML, rules, and generative AI
  • Guide model evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement
  • Bring Deep Construction Intelligence to AI
  • Architect construction-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, and reasoning frameworks
  • Model relationships across scope, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, and resources
  • Enable domain-aware AI that understands construction workflows and trade complexity
  • Solve domain-specific challenges that generic AI platforms cannot
  • Influence at Enterprise Scale
  • Partner with Platform Services teams on shared AI infrastructure
  • Align Construction AI systems with enterprise Trusted AI, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks
  • Drive reuse of platform capabilities while enabling domain-specific innovation
  • Influence platform AI roadmap based on construction use cases and requirements

Requirements

  • Experience as a senior/director level individual contributor
  • Deep experience designing and deploying large-scale AI systems using GenAI and traditional ML
  • Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure
  • Experience with multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and AI governance
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and executive audiences
  • A track record of leading, influencing and driving technology strategy
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
AI architecturemachine learningGenAImulti-agent systemsorchestration frameworksLLMsclassical MLknowledge graphsreasoning frameworksAI governance
Soft skills
communicationleadershipinfluencingstrategic thinkingproblem-solving