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Posted on 2026/01/17

Distinguished AI Architect - AEC Construction

Autodesk

Washington, DC, United States

Full-time

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Job Requisition ID #

25WD93883

25WD93883, Distinguished AI Architect - AEC Construction

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Position Overview

We are looking for a Distinguished AI Architect to lead the AI vision for AEC Construction.

This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how AI transforms construction-moving the industry from manual workflows to intelligent, predictive, and autonomous systems.

You will be the AI technical authority for Construction and related AECO products, working closely with senior leaders to define strategy, guide investment, and deliver AI solutions with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

Lead AI Architecture & Strategy

• Define the long-term AI architecture and technical vision for construction solutions

• Establish scalable architecture patterns and standards for AI systems

• Bring together GenAI, machine learning, and rule-based systems into cohesive platforms

• Ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business and customer value

• Opportunity to shape AI strategy for construction at global scale

• Solve novel, high-impact problems in a mission-critical industry

Design Agentic & Assistant-Based Experiences

• Architect the evolution of an AI-powered Construction Assistant

• Design multi-agent AI workflows that plan, reason, validate, and act

• Define MCP-based orchestration and agent-to-agent collaboration patterns

• Integrate Construction Assistant experiences across shared AI platforms

• Define agent governance models for memory, planning, safety, and escalation

Build Modern AI & ML Systems

• Modernize and scale existing ML solutions into a unified AI framework

• Define best practices for LLMs, prompting, tool use, and retrieval

• Apply classical ML for forecasting, optimization, risk detection, and prediction

• Design hybrid reasoning systems combining ML, rules, and generative AI

• Guide model evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Bring Deep Construction Intelligence to AI

• Architect construction-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, and reasoning frameworks

• Model relationships across scope, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, and resources

• Enable domain-aware AI that understands construction workflows and trade complexity

• Solve domain-specific challenges that generic AI platforms cannot

Influence at Enterprise Scale

• Partner with Platform Services teams on shared AI infrastructure

• Align Construction AI systems with enterprise Trusted AI, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks

• Drive reuse of platform capabilities while enabling domain-specific innovation

• Influence platform AI roadmap based on construction use cases and requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience as a senior/director level individual contributor

• Deep experience designing and deploying large-scale AI systems using GenAI and traditional ML

• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure

• Experience with multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and AI governance

• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and executive audiences

• A track record of leading, influencing and driving technology strategy


25WD93883, Architecte IA emerite - Construction AEC

Apercu du poste

Nous recherchons un architecte IA emerite pour diriger la vision IA pour la construction AEC.

Il s'agit d'un poste de contributeur senior destine a un leader technique pragmatique qui souhaite faconner la maniere dont l'IA transforme la construction, en faisant passer le secteur des flux de travail manuels a des systemes intelligents, predictifs et autonomes.

Vous serez l'autorite technique en matiere d'IA pour la construction et les produits AECO connexes.

Vous travaillerez en etroite collaboration avec les cadres superieurs pour definir la strategie, orienter les investissements et fournir des solutions d'IA ayant un impact reel.

Responsabilites

Diriger l'architecture et la strategie IA

• Definir l'architecture IA a long terme et la vision technique pour les solutions de construction

• Etablir des modeles et des normes d'architecture evolutifs pour les systemes IA

• Reunir GenAI, l'apprentissage automatique et les systemes bases sur des regles dans des plateformes coherentes

• Veiller a ce que les initiatives IA apportent une valeur commerciale et client mesurable

• Possibilite de faconner la strategie IA pour la construction a l'echelle mondiale

• Resoudre des problemes nouveaux et a fort impact dans un secteur d'activite critique

Concevoir des experiences basees sur des agents et des assistants

• Concevoir l'evolution d'un assistant de construction alimente par l'IA

• Concevoir des flux de travail IA multi-agents qui planifient, raisonnent, valident et agissent

• Definir des modeles d'orchestration bases sur le MCP et de collaboration entre agents

• Integrer les experiences de l'assistant de construction sur les plateformes IA partagees

• Definir des modeles de gouvernance des agents pour la memoire, la planification, la securite et l'escalade

Construire des systemes IA et ML modernes

• Moderniser et adapter les solutions ML existantes dans un cadre IA unifie

• Definir les meilleures pratiques pour les LLM, les invites, l'utilisation des outils et la recuperation

• Appliquer le ML classique pour la prevision, l'optimisation, la detection des risques et la prediction

• Concevoir des systemes de raisonnement hybrides combinant ML, regles et IA generative

• Guider l'evaluation, la surveillance et l'amelioration continue des modeles

Apporter une intelligence approfondie de la construction a l'IA

• Architecturer des ontologies, des graphes de connaissances et des cadres de raisonnement specifiques a la construction

• Modeliser les relations entre la portee, le calendrier, les couts, les risques, les contrats et les ressources

• Permettre une IA sensible au domaine qui comprend les flux de travail de la construction et la complexite du metier

• Resoudre les defis specifiques au domaine que les plateformes d'IA generiques ne peuvent pas relever

Influence a l'echelle de l'entreprise

• Collaborer avec les equipes des services de plateforme sur une infrastructure d'IA partagee

• Aligner les systemes d'IA de construction avec les cadres d'IA, de securite, de confidentialite et de conformite de confiance de l'entreprise

• Encourager la reutilisation des capacites de la plateforme tout en permettant l'innovation specifique au domaine

• Influencer la feuille de route de l'IA de la plateforme en fonction des cas d'utilisation et des exigences du secteur de la construction

Qualifications minimales

• Experience en tant que contributeur individuel de niveau senior/directeur

• Experience approfondie dans la conception et le deploiement de systemes d'IA a grande echelle utilisant GenAI et le ML traditionnel

• Solide experience dans les systemes distribues, les plateformes cloud et l'infrastructure IA

• Experience avec les systemes multi-agents, les cadres d'orchestration et la gouvernance IA

• Capacite a communiquer clairement des idees complexes a des publics techniques et executifs

• Experience averee dans la direction, l'influence et la mise en uvre de strategies technologiques

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