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26WD98516
Position overview
Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) empowers the next generation of innovators by providing access to Autodesk tools, learning programs, and certifications. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to focus on building new product experiences for our education community: students, educators and institutions who are shaping the future of design and make. This is a small, fast-moving team inside Autodesk, working much more like an early-stage product team than a large enterprise engineering group. Our team values curiosity, craftsmanship, and a pragmatic approach to shipping high-quality product experiences end-to-end. As a Software Development Engineer you will contribute to building and shipping education product features that assist in the teaching and learning of Autodesk platforms and design & make products. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys building real products, not just isolated systems. You should be comfortable working across backend services, integrations, automation, experimentation, and product-facing components when needed.
Responsibilities
Start strong: you will write production-quality code, maintain and connect systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teammates to deliver education features for Autodesk products. You will help take ideas from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration. Typical responsibilities include:
- Implement backend services APIs, integrations, and product infrastructure that support education product features and platform experiences
- Move quickly from prototype to production, balancing speed, quality, maintainability, and user impact
- Integrate and productize ML/AI solutions in close collaboration with digital experience and platform engineering teams
- Build and maintain automation, plugins or SDKs for CAD platforms (e.g., Fusion, Revit, 3DS Max, Maya), including tooling to support reproducible experiments and product delivery
- Work across product and engineering boundaries, including lightweight frontend integration, data pipelines, service orchestration, experimentation tooling, or internal product workflows when needed
- Work with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and containerized deployments (Docker), and contribute to observability and reliability of services
- Write robust, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews and design discussions; follow security and data-handling best practices
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, frontend engineers, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped features
- Document designs, APIs, runbooks and hand-off materials to product teams, and help onboard other engineers to the codebase
- Contribute to team culture by sharing knowledge, and promoting reproducible engineering practices
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent)
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++; experience writing production-quality code and libraries
- Understanding of Full-Stack development workflows/processes
- Able to utilise AI coding tools for increased velocity
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and version control (Git)
- Proven ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines and maintain testable, maintainable code
- Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, researchers, ML engineers, platform engineers, or other technical teams to ship features
- Strong debugging, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a distributed team
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working on CAD or 3D geometry systems (meshes, B-Reps, geometry kernels) or building plugins/automation for CAD platforms (e.g., Fusion, Revit, AutoCAD, Maya)
- Knowledge of OpenCascade or other geometry libraries
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and deploying/monitoring services in the cloud
- Front-end familiarity (JavaScript, React/Next.js) for engineers who contribute to product-facing UI elements
- Understanding of software architecture and design patterns for scalable systems
- Experience translating prototypes, research ideas, or ambiguous product concepts into production-ready implementations
- Prior exposure to education environments and the workflow of translating prototypes to product-ready implementations
The ideal candidate
- Product-minded: You care about the user, the problem, and whether the thing you build actually works in the real world
- Pragmatic and hands-on — able to move quickly from prototype to production-quality implementation, while maintaining good engineering judgment
- Curious: You are willing to learn new systems, tools, product areas, or technical domains to move the work forward
- Passionate about education, geometry and 3D data
- Collaborative and communicative — you explain technical trade-offs clearly and help drive consensus
Learn More
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 transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $82,000 and $147,620. 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.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
Job Requisition ID #
26WD98516
Position overview
Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) empowers the next generation of innovators by providing access to Autodesk tools, learning programs, and certifications. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to focus on building new product experiences for our education community: students, educators and institutions who are shaping the future of design and make. This is a small, fast-moving team inside Autodesk, working much more like an early-stage product team than a large enterprise engineering group. Our team values curiosity, craftsmanship, and a pragmatic approach to shipping high-quality product experiences end-to-end. As a Software Development Engineer you will contribute to building and shipping education product features that assist in the teaching and learning of Autodesk platforms and design & make products. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys building real products, not just isolated systems. You should be comfortable working across backend services, integrations, automation, experimentation, and product-facing components when needed.
Responsibilities
Start strong: you will write production-quality code, maintain and connect systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teammates to deliver education features for Autodesk products. You will help take ideas from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration. Typical responsibilities include:
- Implement backend services APIs, integrations, and product infrastructure that support education product features and platform experiences
- Move quickly from prototype to production, balancing speed, quality, maintainability, and user impact
- Integrate and productize ML/AI solutions in close collaboration with digital experience and platform engineering teams
- Build and maintain automation, plugins or SDKs for CAD platforms (e.g., Fusion, Revit, 3DS Max, Maya), including tooling to support reproducible experiments and product delivery
- Work across product and engineering boundaries, including lightweight frontend integration, data pipelines, service orchestration, experimentation tooling, or internal product workflows when needed
- Work with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and containerized deployments (Docker), and contribute to observability and reliability of services
- Write robust, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews and design discussions; follow security and data-handling best practices
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, frontend engineers, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped features
- Document designs, APIs, runbooks and hand-off materials to product teams, and help onboard other engineers to the codebase
- Contribute to team culture by sharing knowledge, and promoting reproducible engineering practices
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent)
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++; experience writing production-quality code and libraries
- Understanding of Full-Stack development workflows/processes
- Able to utilise AI coding tools for increased velocity
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and version control (Git)
- Proven ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines and maintain testable, maintainable code
- Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, researchers, ML engineers, platform engineers, or other technical teams to ship features
- Strong debugging, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a distributed team
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working on CAD or 3D geometry systems (meshes, B-Reps, geometry kernels) or building plugins/automation for CAD platforms (e.g., Fusion, Revit, AutoCAD, Maya)
- Knowledge of OpenCascade or other geometry libraries
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and deploying/monitoring services in the cloud
- Front-end familiarity (JavaScript, React/Next.js) for engineers who contribute to product-facing UI elements
- Understanding of software architecture and design patterns for scalable systems
- Experience translating prototypes, research ideas, or ambiguous product concepts into production-ready implementations
- Prior exposure to education environments and the workflow of translating prototypes to product-ready implementations
The ideal candidate
- Product-minded: You care about the user, the problem, and whether the thing you build actually works in the real world
- Pragmatic and hands-on — able to move quickly from prototype to production-quality implementation, while maintaining good engineering judgment
- Curious: You are willing to learn new systems, tools, product areas, or technical domains to move the work forward
- Passionate about education, geometry and 3D data
- Collaborative and communicative — you explain technical trade-offs clearly and help drive consensus
Learn More
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 transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $82,000 and $147,620. 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.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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Align your portfolio with Autodesk's product stack
Autodesk builds tools like AutoCAD, Revit, and Fusion 360. Highlighting backend, cloud infrastructure, or 3D graphics experience in your portfolio signals direct relevance and moves you past the initial resume screen faster.
Verify your visa type before applying
Autodesk sponsors multiple visa categories, but your eligibility depends on your current status. If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your STEM extension window aligns with their typical hiring timeline before submitting applications.
Target roles flagged as sponsorship-open on Migrate Mate
Sponsorship availability isn't always visible on Autodesk's own careers page. Use Migrate Mate to filter Software Engineer roles at Autodesk that are verified for sponsorship, saving time you'd otherwise spend chasing dead ends.
Prepare for a multi-round technical process
Autodesk's Software Engineer interviews typically include system design rounds alongside coding assessments. Practicing distributed systems and API design questions reflects the architecture-level thinking their product teams expect.
Understand how your offer timing affects H-1B filing
If you need H-1B sponsorship, offers finalized after the April lottery registration window mean a full year's wait until the next cycle. Getting an offer in place by January gives Autodesk's immigration team enough runway to register you.
Request a PERM-aware conversation with your recruiter early
If Green Card sponsorship matters to you, raise it before you sign. Autodesk's immigration teams handle PERM labor certifications, but DOL processing can take years, and knowing your employer's policy upfront shapes your long-term planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Autodesk sponsor H-1B visas for Software Engineers?
Yes, Autodesk sponsors H-1B visas for Software Engineers. The company has an established immigration program that works with legal counsel to file H-1B petitions for qualifying candidates. If you're subject to the H-1B cap, timing your offer to align with the April registration window is critical, as approved petitions don't take effect until October 1.
How do I apply for Software Engineer jobs at Autodesk?
Applications go through Autodesk's careers portal at autodesk.com/careers. Search by role title and location, then apply directly. If you need visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate to identify which open Software Engineer postings at Autodesk are confirmed sponsorship-eligible before applying, so you're not spending time on roles that won't move forward for international candidates.
Which visa types does Autodesk commonly use for Software Engineer roles?
Autodesk sponsors a range of visa types for Software Engineers, including H-1B, E-3 visa for Australian citizens, TN visa for Canadian and Mexican nationals, F-1 OPT and CPT for students, and J-1 visa for qualifying exchange visitors. For permanent residency, the company also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways through PERM labor certification with the DOL.
What qualifications does Autodesk expect for sponsored Software Engineer roles?
Most Software Engineer positions at Autodesk require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. This matters for visa purposes too, since H-1B and E-3 sponsorship both require the role to qualify as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, meaning a degree in a relevant technical field is part of the eligibility baseline.
How do I manage the timeline between a job offer and visa filing at Autodesk?
Once you have a verbal offer, Autodesk's immigration team typically initiates the sponsorship process through their legal counsel. For H-1B transfers from another employer, USCIS portability rules allow you to start work as soon as the petition is received. For new H-1B cap cases, expect several months between offer and your October 1 start date, so plan your current visa status accordingly.