Senior Principal Engineer – AI Search & Retrieval

Overview

Senior Principal Engineer for AI-powered Search Infrastructure within Autodesk Platform Services. You’ll define and build the next-generation Autodesk search platform, extending it from traditional retrieval to AI/LLM-powered search and retrieval systems.

What you'll do

• Lead software architecture and system design for scalable distributed, data-intensive search and AI services.
• Define AI-powered search architecture including query understanding, orchestration, retrieval, ranking/reranking, and LLM/ML integration.
• Drive evolution of search using lexical, semantic, vector, and hybrid retrieval approaches.
• Establish patterns for deploying and operating LLM/ML models in latency-sensitive high-scale search infrastructure.
• Define evaluation approaches for search/AI quality across relevance, retrieval/ranking effectiveness, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Hire and mentor senior engineers and help build high-performing engineering teams.

What you'll need

• 15+ years designing complex software systems with hands-on experience in Java and AWS.
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role in a large distributed organization operating at scale.
• Strong information retrieval/search experience with Lucene, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
• Experience designing/building AI/ML-powered search, recommendation, retrieval, or ranking systems.
• Strong understanding of LLM application to search tasks such as query understanding, rewriting/expansion, and retrieval augmentation.
• Understanding of embeddings, vector search/vector databases, and semantic or hybrid retrieval architectures.

Details

• Role is located in Pune, India.
• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required.