Hybrid Distinguished AI Architect – AEC Construction

at Autodesk

• Job title: Distinguished AI Architect – AEC Construction
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $189,000 - $305,800 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Lead the AI vision for AEC Construction as a Distinguished AI Architect at Autodesk. Shape how AI transforms construction towards intelligent and autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• 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