Software Development Manager, Generative AI

Autodesk

Software Development Manager leading a full-stack engineering team for AI capabilities integration in Autodesk's cloud-scale software. Responsible for managing product features and team development.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorLead💰 CA$140,000 - CA$205,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Directly manage engineers responsible for integrating AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows into frontend and backend product flows
Define and implement shared, granular data representations that enable consistent use across features
Deliver integration surfaces and developer-facing tooling that make capabilities accessible to product teams and partners
Operate with an API-first mindset and contribute to platform initiatives that provide consistent invocation, governance, and operational patterns for capability use across the company
Deliver both client-side and server-side functionality and own the end-to-end experience for the features your team ships
Provide hands-on technical guidance and help the team make pragmatic architecture and implementation decisions that balance delivery speed and long-term maintainability
Lead and coach engineers who implement customer-facing UI and client integrations
Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and psychological safety
Work closely with product and research partners to translate evolving capabilities into safe, usable, and performant product experiences
Recruit and onboard engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years professional software engineering experience delivering production software with a record of coaching and growing individual contributors
Hands-on full-stack experience with an emphasis on front-end and client work (modern front-end frameworks and tooling)
Demonstrated experience leading teams that build customer-facing UI and client integrations
Experience designing and shipping integration surfaces and developer tools or libraries for internal teams or external partners
Experience working with or alongside ML/AI or research teams to productionize capabilities, and familiarity with the unique operational and UX considerations that such work introduces
Practical familiarity with cloud-native development, CI/CD, and operational practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to work cross-functionally

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual cash bonuses
Commissions for sales roles
Stock grants
Comprehensive benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringfull-stack developmentfront-end frameworksclient integrationsintegration surfacesdeveloper toolscloud-native developmentCI/CDAI-enabled capabilitiesagentic workflows

Soft Skills

coachingleadershipcommunicationcollaborationownershipquality assurancepsychological safetyteam managementproblem-solvingcross-functional teamwork