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PPL M&A Program Manager

San Francisco, CA

If you enjoy building on a strong foundation to drive continued growth and impact, partnering ... Lead the effort to standardize the Autodesk PPL Integration approach and model integration ...

Parsons

SmartPlant P&ID Designer

Pasadena, CA · On-site

$49.76 - $87.07/hr

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Support integration with SmartPlant Foundation, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant 3D, Autodesk Vault, and BIM 360. * Perform QA/QC checks and maintain revision control and ...

Therm-x of California

Electrical Engineer

Hayward, CA · On-site

$85K - $95K/yr

Strong foundation in electrical engineering fundamentals * Ability to read, interpret, and create electrical schematics and wiring diagrams * Proficiency with electrical CAD tools; Autodesk ...

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Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training Alignment Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab:...

Autodesk

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 21 days ago

Autodesk rating

9.1

Company rating: 9.1 out of 10

Based on 8 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

25th of 244 rated software companies

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98667

Position Overview

Autodesk's domains - architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media & entertainment - provide a distinctive research environment: rich structured data, long-horizon reasoning tasks, and real-world evaluation grounded in professional workflows. Uniquely, decades of investment in physics simulation engines, CAD kernels, and computational design tools give us something most labs don't have: high-fidelity, domain-grounded verifiers that can serve as reward signals for post-training. Rather than relying solely on human preference data, we can ground reinforcement learning in the laws of physics and the constraints of real engineering. These are exactly the kinds of challenges - and assets - that make post-training and alignment research here genuinely distinctive.

We publish at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and SIGGRAPH. We collaborate with leading academic and industry labs. And we have a direct line from research advances to product impact at scale. This is not a role where research sits behind a wall from engineering - you will see your work matter.

Respoinsibilities

  • Post-training for model development - from RLHF and preference optimization to agentic systems and long-horizon reasoning

  • Develop novel algorithms that improve model reliability, controllability, and alignment

  • Make principled architectural decisions about when to address challenges at the pre-training, post-training, or system level

  • Design and run experiments that shape model behavior, robustness, and reasoning quality

  • Partner with infrastructure teams to build scalable, reproducible post-training workflows

  • Contribute to publications, patents, and Autodesk's external research visibility

  • Design evaluation frameworks for long-horizon reasoning, tool use, agentic behavior, safety, and real-world workflow completion

  • Lead rigorous model analysis and interpretability efforts

  • Drive human-in-the-loop evaluation with high annotation quality and sound scientific methodology

  • Establish model readiness criteria and provide go/no-go recommendations for releases

  • Communicate technical risks, limitations, and trade-offs clearly to leadership

Minimum Requirements

  • Deep hands-on expertise in reinforcement learning for foundation models, and fluency with post-training methods (RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, PPO, or adjacent approaches)

  • Proven experience leading or mentoring technical research teams - whether in an academic lab, AI research organization, or industry setting

  • Strong intuition for model behavior, alignment challenges, and post-training trade-offs

  • Experience designing evaluation systems and thinking rigorously about what it means for a model to be ready

  • Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • A PhD or equivalent depth of industry research experience in ML, RL, AI, or a related field

  • Experience at a frontier model lab or advanced applied AI organization

  • A strong publication record at leading ML or AI venues

  • Background in alignment research, preference learning, or agentic AI

  • Experience deploying or supporting production AI systems

  • Familiarity with large-scale training infrastructure and compute trade-offs

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk? Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site). If you have any questions or require support, contact Autodesk Careers.

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Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. For more information visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk.

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1982

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