Principal Engineer - Agentic AI

Autodesk is hiring a Principal Engineer - Agentic AI in Bengaluru.

Job Requisition ID # 26WD99827 Position Overview Autodesk is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Engineer – Agentic AI Platform & Implementation to lead the architecture, development, and enterprise adoption of next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent platforms. This role will define the technical strategy for building intelligent, autonomous systems that enhance Autodesk products, internal engineering workflows, and business operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with a Master's degree or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) preferred

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building distributed systems and cloud-native platforms

• 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), or intelligent automation platforms

• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineering organizations

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go, or C++

• Deep expertise with cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and event-driven architectures

• Expertise with Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), GraphQL, gRPC, messaging systems, and service mesh technologies

• Exceptional technical leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production-grade autonomous AI agents

• Deep understanding of multi-agent architectures, planning and reasoning systems, tool calling, function execution, long-term memory architectures, workflow orchestration, and AI evaluation methodologies

• Experience with foundation models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or equivalent technologies

• Experience using AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or similar platforms

• Experience with vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, knowledge graphs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)

• Familiarity with AI observability, monitoring, and evaluation platforms

• Experience with enterprise-scale platform engineering, identity and access management, Zero Trust security architectures, API management, enterprise integration patterns, DevSecOps, and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)

• Experience defining enterprise technology strategy and driving organization-wide engineering transformation

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