
Distinguished AI Architect – AEC Construction
Autodesk
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • Alabama • Alaska • United States
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Salary
💰 $189,000 - $305,800 per year
Tech Stack
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