Help shape how cities are designed

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in developing the next generation of our AI-powered architecture design platform.

Your contributions will have a direct impact on shaping our product and helping teams move faster across the organization.

Our teams work on everything from complex 3D workflows in the browser to AI-driven analyses.

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll play a key role in setting technical direction and shaping how we build.

You communicate complex ideas clearly and bring others along, helping teams make better decisions and move faster.

You’ll work on systems that combine cloud architecture, performance-sensitive applications, and AI to support complex design and simulation workflows.

Your work will enable architects, planners, and developers to discover smarter, more sustainable solutions and gain meaningful insights into their projects.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will use your technical expertise and strategic thinking to drive progress across team boundaries.

You’ll contribute as a senior individual contributor, combining hands-on engineering with broad technical influence.

In this role, you will:

• Set technical direction and influence architecture across teams, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability

• Contribute to the design and evolution of systems that combine cloud architecture, performance-sensitive applications, and AI-driven capabilities

• Drive high-impact technical initiatives and help align engineering efforts with broader product and business goals

• Navigate trade-offs between performance, cost, and user experience in complex workflows

• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver meaningful user outcomes

• Share knowledge, mentor others, and help grow technical capability across the organization

Desired profile

Operates with a high degree of autonomy and clarity in ambiguous situations

Drives architectural and strategic decisions across squads or domains

Recognized as a domain expert or strong generalist across multiple technologies

Brings others along by mentoring, enabling, and fostering technical growth

Continuously identifies areas for improvement in how we work and delivers change

Collaborates across functions to align engineering with product and user outcomes

Motivated by our mission and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes at scale

What will help you succeed in this role

Strong hands-on engineering background building cloud-based, user-facing systems

Proven experience driving architectural or technical decisions beyond a single team

Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines and seniority levels

Interest in applying AI in real-world products

You might also bring

Experience with TypeScript, serverless architectures and AWS

Background in large-scale systems or platform development

Experience working in cross-functional, international product teams

Why join us

• Work on real-world problems with measurable environmental impact

• Shape technical direction at a platform level

• Collaborate with experienced engineers across disciplines

• Competitive compensation, pension, and benefits

We believe diverse teams build better products, and we’re committed to creating a workplace where people can be themselves and do their best work.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement listed — curiosity, empathy, and a growth mindset matter just as much to us.

We’re on a mission to help design better cities.

With 90% of future population growth expected in urban areas—and construction responsible for around 40% of global CO₂ emissions—the AEC industry must evolve.

Our cloud-based Autodesk Forma platform helps users evaluate design choices based on environmental impact, living quality (sun, daylight, noise), and project feasibility.

We started as Spacemaker in Norway and became part of Autodesk in 2020.