Distinguished Applied AI Engineer, AI Transformation

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Position Overview

As the Distinguished Engineer, AI Transformation you will define and guide and accelerate the strategy for the rapid, responsible and outcome driven adoption of AI across Autodesk’s go-to-market (GTM) ecosystem. This role drives impact through technical leadership, architecture, and influence.

Growth Experience Technology (GET)  builds the data, platforms, and intelligent experiences that power Autodesk’s marketing, sales, commerce, and customer success motions. In this role, you will help shape how AI is embedded into those systems, driving AI augmentation and automation that accelerate growth and deepen customer engagement.

As part of the Growth Experience Technology (GET) organization, you will extend Autodesk’s specialist ML and AI capabilities across a highly matrixed environment spanning marketing, sales, commerce, and customer success. Your focus is not abstract AI strategy, but translating intent into durable architectures, reusable patterns, and operating models that teams can adopt at scale. You will act as a trusted technical authority and accountable to real business outcomes.

You will balance strategic vision with technical pragmatism, leading the evaluation of build-vs-buy decisions and ensuring that AI capabilities align with both Autodesk’s platform architecture and business outcomes. This role requires a strong understanding of the embedded technology stack across GTM systems—CRM, marketing automation, content delivery, analytics, and experience orchestration—and how AI can be layered responsibly and effectively into each

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Reports to: Senior Director, Machine Learning, Growth Experience Technology (GET)

Responsibilities

• Define Autodesk’s AI Strategy for GTM Platforms: Build and maintain a strategic roadmap that translates AI opportunities into prioritized investments across personalization, conversational experiences, intelligent routing, and content optimization

• Guide Build-vs-Buy Decisions: Evaluate when to leverage internal Machine Learning and platform capabilities versus external AI partners or vendors. Balance innovation velocity, integration complexity, and governance standards to make optimal investment choices

• Guide AI Adoption: Provide practical guidance that enables: ML and AI practitioners to design and scale specialized ML systems where deep expertise creates differentiated value

• Application developers to responsibly and effectively use foundation and commodity models within GTM platforms

• Business users to embed AI into everyday workflows, even when AI is not their primary discipline

• Understand and Influence GTM Platform Architecture: Develop deep familiarity with Autodesk’s GTM technology stack (e.g., Salesforce, Adobe, Marketo, Gainsight, Segment, internal data platforms  to identify where and how AI can be most effectively integrated

• Operationalize Responsible and Trusted AI: Embed principles of transparency, fairness, and explainability into GET’s AI initiatives, in partnership with Autodesk’s Trust and Legal teams

• Accelerate Adoption Through Reusable Patterns: Identify and codify scalable AI patterns—such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and conversational frameworks—that can be deployed consistently across GTM products and services

• Measure Business Impact: Establish instrumentation, success metrics, and evaluation frameworks that connect AI initiatives to tangible outcomes like conversion lift, engagement quality, and customer lifetime value

• Align and Evangelize Across Stakeholders: Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and GTM leaders to align AI strategy, communicate value, and ensure cohesive execution across the customer journey

• Drive AI Fluency Across GET and GTM Partners: Create enablement programs, documentation, and forums that raise organizational understanding and ensure responsible, scalable use of AI

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

• 15-20 years’ experience in a software company

• 5+ years in AI/ML, data strategy, or platform-driven transformation roles, ideally spanning both technical and business contexts

• Proven ability to operationalize technology in large, matrixed organizations

• Proven ability to connect AI capabilities to business value and drive cross-functional execution

• Proven ability to operationalize technology in large, matrixed organizations

• Deep understanding of AI ecosystems (LLMs, GenAI, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management an experimentation) and their operationalization within modern SaaS architectures

• Familiarity with Responsible AI frameworks and compliance considerations

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills related to build-vs-buy tradeoffs, vendor evaluation, and platform integration

• Excellent communication and influence skills across executive and technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading AI strategy or platform development within large-scale digital, customer experience, or GTM organizations

• Hands-on familiarity with Autodesk’s or similar enterprise GTM systems (Salesforce, Segment, Gainsight, etc.)

• Understanding of ML platform operations, data architecture, and instrumentation design

• Demonstrated success scaling AI prototypes into production and measuring their sustained impact

• Expert in data-informed decision making

The Ideal Candidate

• Strategic technologist

• Fluent in both the language of business outcomes and the realities of systems architecture

• Understand when to innovate internally and when to integrate best-in-class tools

• Guiding teams forward through credibility and trust

• Believe that speed and responsibility must coexist, and that AI’s greatest potential lies in amplifying human and organizational capability

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be 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 in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $199,300 and $322,300. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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