Research Engineer, Datasets. 3D Data

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Remote
3-5 Years Experience
Big Data • Cloud • Digital Media • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Industrial
Autodesk is a global leader in design and make technology that helps innovators everywhere solve today's challenges.
The Role
As a Research Engineer at Autodesk, you will build ML-powered product features and unify disparate data sources (text, images, 3D models). Your role involves developing scalable systems for data processing, conducting experiments, producing visualizations, and ensuring compliant data use while collaborating with AI researchers.
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The work we do at Autodesk touches nearly every person on the planet. By creating software tools for making buildings, machines, and even the latest movies, we influence and empower some of the most creative people in the world. As a Research Engineer at Autodesk Research, you will work side-by-side with world-class researchers and engineers to build new ML-powered product features that help our customers imagine, design, and make a better world. You are a software engineer who is passionate about solving problems and building things. You have experience building datasets that combine different data modalities such as text, images, and 3D models. Your skills span across CAD data processing, analysis, indexing, retrieval, and experimentation at multiple scales. You are excited to collaborate with AI researchers to build datasets that power generative AI features in Autodesk products.

You will report to a research manager in the Autodesk AI Lab. We are a global team, located in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and remotely. For this role we support both in-person, hybrid, and remote work.

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition, ingestion, and curation.
  • Organize and curate large, unstructured, disparate multi-modal (text, images, 3D models, code snippets, metadata) data sources into a unified format suitable for machine learning.
  • Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems to process, filter, and deploy datasets for use with machine learning.
  • Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights.
  • Produce data visualizations and summaries to communicate data characteristics to researchers and leadership.
  • Work with our legal and trust teams to ensure compliant and ethical use of data.
  • Develop and deploy data pipelines into secure remote environments respecting and demonstrating security best practices.
  • Writing robust, testable code that is well documented and easy to understand.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BSc or MSc in Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with data modeling, architecture, and processing skills with varied data representations including 2D and 3D geometry.
  • The ability to create excellent technical documentation for code, data analysis, and experiment findings.
  • Experience with software version control, unit tests, and deployment pipelines.
  • Experience with cloud services & architectures (AWS, Azure, etc.).
  • Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
  • Experience with frameworks such as Ray data, Metaflow, Hadoop, Spark, and Hive.
  • Experience with vector data stores.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with computational geometry such as mesh or boundary representation data processing.
  • Experience with CAD model search and retrieval, in PLM systems or other searchable CAD databases.
  • Experience using open-source pre-trained language and vision/language models such as Bert, Llama, LLaVA, etc.

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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 – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Cad
Cassandra
Hadoop
Hive
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Ray
Spark
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
13,285 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1982

What We Do

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything.

Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D.

We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife.

We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.

Why Work With Us

Our work is impactful. Our people are innovative. And our culture is inclusive. As our software shapes new solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, you shape your career path. With us, you lead the way in achieving sustainability, resilient communities, and an equitable workforce. Discover #AutodeskLife. 

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