Principal Software Engineer, Agentic AI

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in defining and building the agentic AI layer at Autodesk Forma Design. As a Principal Engineer, you'll set technical direction for our agentic capabilities across the organisation. You'll define how we expose Forma's domain agents to AI orchestrators, how we evolve our public APIs and MCP tooling, and how teams across Forma adopt consistent, composable patterns for AI integration.

What You Will Do

Define and evolve the technical architecture for Forma's agentic AI platform, including MCP tooling, public APIs, SDK capabilities, and the integration patterns teams use to expose Forma's domain agents to AI orchestrators. Serve as Forma Design's technical lead into Autodesk's AI platform team — converging domain-agent patterns between Forma's squads and the platform.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Operates with high autonomy and strategic clarity in a fast-moving, ambiguous domain. Multiplies through others — measures success by what the org can build, not by personal output.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on engineering background in cloud-native, backend-heavy systems
• Proven experience shaping architectural or platform-level decisions beyond a single team
• Experience driving platform adoption across multiple teams — setting patterns and exemplars that others build from, not just defining architecture
• Deep understanding of agentic AI systems, including MCP, tool-use patterns, LLM integration, and agent orchestration
• Experience designing and evolving APIs and SDKs used by external developers or AI systems
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and web security, including OAuth flows and secure API design
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across disciplines and seniority levels

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Pension
• Benefits