Software Engineer, Education

Position Overview

Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) helps students, educators, and institutions access Autodesk tools, learning programs, and certifications. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and deliver education-focused product experiences that support teaching and learning across Autodesk platforms.

Our team operates like a startup within Autodesk—small, fast-moving, and focused on delivering high-quality products. You’ll work across the product stack, including backend services, integrations, automation, experimentation, and user-facing features. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy taking ownership of customer-facing products from concept to launch and collaborating across disciplines to deliver meaningful user experiences.

Responsibilities

Start strong: you will write production-quality code,maintainand connectsystems, and collaborate with cross-functional teammates to delivereducationfeatures for Autodesk products.You will help take ideas from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration.Typical responsibilities include:

• Implement backend servicesAPIs, 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 withdigital experienceand platform engineering teams

• Build andmaintainautomation,pluginsor 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), andcontribute to observability and reliability of services

• Write robust, well-tested code andparticipateactively 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,runbooksand hand-off materials to product teams, and help onboard other engineers to the codebase

• Contribute to team culture by sharingknowledge, andpromoting 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)

• Strongprogramming skills in Python and/or C++; experience writing production-quality code andlibraries

• Understandingof Full-Stack development workflows/processes

• Able to utilise AI coding tools for increasedvelocity

• Experiencewith containerization (Docker) and version control (Git)

• Proven ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines andmaintaintestable, 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-solvingskillsand 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 ofOpenCascadeor 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 toeducationenvironments 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 buildactually worksin the real world

• Pragmatic and hands-on — able to move quickly from prototype to production-quality implementation, whilemaintaininggood engineering judgment

• Curious: You are willing to learn new systems, tools, product areas, or technical domains to move the work forward

• Passionate abouteducation,geometryand 3D data

• Collaborative and communicative — you explain technicaltrade-offsclearly and help drive consensus