Distinguished Engineer, AI Transformation

Distinguished Engineer, AI Transformation

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 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 model 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
• Guide Build-vs-Buy Decisions
• Guide AI Adoption
• Understand and Influence GTM Platform Architecture
• Operationalize Responsible and Trusted AI
• Accelerate Adoption Through Reusable Patterns
• Measure Business Impact
• Align and Evangelize Across Stakeholders
• Drive AI Fluency Across GET and GTM Partners

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
• 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.

Salary Transparency

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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