Job Requisition ID #
26WD96367
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we celebrate all the real-world problem solvers, creative rebels, and innovators who are driven to improve the reality around us. Because we don’t believe in waiting for progress; we believe in making it.
We are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer for AI-powered Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. In this role, you will help define and build the next generation of Autodesk's Search Platform, powering search experiences across Autodesk’s Industry Clouds – Fusion, Forma and Flow.
You will provide technical leadership for evolving our search platform beyond traditional information retrieval toward AI-powered search and retrieval systems. This includes query understanding and orchestration, semantic and hybrid retrieval, ranking and reranking, and the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning models to improve search relevance and user experience.
The role requires a combination of deep distributed-systems expertise, solid foundations in information retrieval,
and practical experience designing and operating modern AI/ML-powered systems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead the software architecture and system design of highly scalable, distributed, data-intensive search and AI services.
- Define the technical architecture for AI-powered search, including query understanding and orchestration, retrieval, ranking/reranking, and integration of LLMs and ML models into search pipelines.
- Drive the evolution of search architectures combining lexical, semantic, vector and hybrid retrieval approaches.
- Partner closely with product teams, ML/AI engineers, and leadership to define the strategic technical roadmap and translate it into production systems.
- Establish architectural patterns for deploying and operating LLMs and ML models within latency-sensitive, high-scale search infrastructure.
- Define approaches for evaluating search and AI quality, including relevance
📌 Senior Principal Engineer – AI Search (Pune)
🏢 Autodesk
📍 Pune