SeniorResearchEngineer

**Job Requisition ID #** 26WD98899 ## Senior Research Engineer, Agentic AI for Design and Make ### The Autodesk Research Team Autodesk Research partners with academia, industry, and government to explore the future of design, engineering, and making. Our teams combine scientific rigor with creative exploration to transform ideas into technologies that empower people to make anything. The Manufacturing Industry Futures team focuses on redefining how things are designed and made using data, automation, intelligence, and new forms of human-machine collaboration. We work at the intersection of applied research, industry needs, emerging technology, and Autodesk’s future platforms. ### Position Overview Autodesk Research is seeking a **Senior Research Engineer** to help shape the future of design and make through applied research in **agentic AI, generative AI, design systems, simulation, and creative engineering workflows**. This role is focused on a new research platform exploring completely new ways to design. We are interested in how frontier AI models, agents, knowledge graphs, simulation, and design tools can come together to help people imagine, explore, evaluate, and create in ways that are not possible today. This is not a role for someone focused only on foundational AI research. We are looking for someone who understands design, engineering, and creative technical workflows, and who is excited by using AI as a practical and creative medium for design and making. You should be curious about how AI can support design thinking, accelerate exploration, automate workflows, connect knowledge across tools, and help people move from intent to outcome. You will join a fast-paced, experimental, startup-like research team working on emerging AI technologies and their application to industry problems. You will build prototypes, work with both Autodesk products and research tools, experiment with agentic systems, and contribute to a strong research culture that supports inn