Senior Machine Learning Engineer, MLOps West Coast

Job Requisition ID # 26WD96432 Position Overview The work we do at Autodesk

touches nearly every person on the planet. By creating software tools for making

buildings, machines, and even the latest movies, we influence and empower some

of the most creative people in the world. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer

focused on Machine Learning Ops (MLOps) for CAD and BIM, you will ensure

AI-powered experiences meet high standards for reliability, scalability, and

operational excellence across Autodesk products. You will build and operate the

infrastructure that takes models from development into production, including

deployment automation, monitoring, and secure, scalable service integration. You

will partner closely with researchers, evaluation engineers, and product teams

to translate evaluation requirements into production quality gates, reduce

operational risk, and continuously improve model performance in real customer

environments. You will report to a manager in the Model Delivery team within

Autodesk Research. This role is based in proximity to our North American west

coast offices, including San Francisco, Portland, and Vancouver. We support both

in-person, hybrid, and remote work.

Responsibilities

• Test and Deploy Production
• Models: Automate model testing and validation. Implement and operate CI/CD
• pipelines to enable safe, repeatable deployments and rollbacks. Operate
• Inference Services: Provision and manage backend resources for inference
• (compute, containers, scaling), and tune performance, reliability, and cost in
• production. Monitor Model Health and Performance: Define and continuously
• monitor health and performance metrics for deployed services. Triage issues by
• severity and drive timely resolution, including incident response and runbooks.
• REST API Integration: Own end-to-end REST API integration, connecting backend
• model services to product and platform surfaces through scalable, containerized
• services. Product Ownership and Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with
• researchers, evaluation engineers, product managers, and partner engineering
• teams to deliver production-ready solutions, communicate status and risks, and
• escalate when needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science,
• Computer Engineering, or equivalent industry experience. 3+ years of
• professional software engineering experience building and operating production
• services. Experience automating testing and deployments using CI/CD, including
• release workflows that support safe rollouts and rollbacks. Experience building
• and operating cloud hosted, containerized services (for example Docker and
• Kubernetes or similar), including provisioning resources and scaling inference
• workloads. Experience building REST APIs using Python based frameworks (or
• similar), and integrating backend services with product or platform consumers.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, code quality, and
• writing maintainable, testable software. Strong written communication skills to
• document architectures, runbooks, and operational processes. Preferred

Qualifications

• Experience running production ML or LLM inference services,
• including performance tuning, cost optimization, and capacity planning.
• Experience with observability tooling and practices (metrics, logging, tracing,
• alerting) and incident response in an on-call environment. Experience deploying
• services within an enterprise internal platform environment with standardized
• pipelines, security controls, and compliance requirements. Familiarity with rate
• limiting, authentication and authorization, and API security best practices.
• Familiarity with design, manufacturing, or AEC workflows, and how backend
• services integrate into CAD/BIM product experiences. Familiarity with Agile or
• Scrum ways of working. Learn More About Autodesk Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing
• things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and
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• expect a starting base salary between $131,400 and $235,950. Offers are based on
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• made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of
• everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other,
• informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up
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