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Senior Machine Learning Test Engineer

Location: United States East Coast

Position Overview

As a Senior Machine Learning Test Engineer in the Research Enablement team, you will work side-by-side with researchers, Machine Learning developers and developers, and software developers and developers to define and uphold quality standards for ML systems. You are a quality-focused developer who is passionate about reliable, repeatable evaluation of ML models and data. Your skills span test strategy, automation, and a little MLOps, with a strong software engineering base. You are excited to collaborate across research and product to ship ML capabilities with clear quality gates. You are comfortable working at the intersection of research and product and are competent in using Autodesk CAD software.

Reporting Structure: You will report to an Engineering Manager in Research Enablement.

Location: United States, East Coast Time Zone.

We are a global team, located in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and remotely. Autodesk is a hybrid-first company, allowing workers to work remotly, in an office, or a mix of both.

Responsibilities

• Define ML quality strategy and acceptance criteria across data, model, and system levels

• Design and maintain model evaluation suites, metrics, and test datasets

• Evaluating CAD RL model outputs for geometric validity or policy stability

• Defining structured rubrics that translate qualitative findings into measurable evaluation gates

• Testing ML Models from product side

• API Testing

• Automate ML QA workflows using Python and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

• Create and maintain test harnesses for ML services and APIs

• Mentor teams on ML QA best practices and consistent evaluation standards

• Build quality gates for training and deployment pipelines (e.g., regression checks, drift detection)

• Contribute to multi-team projects and codebases, ensuring code quality and consistency

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers

• Document and present findings and ideas across the company

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering or QA for ML/AI systems

• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in test automation

• Familiarity with popular CAD environments tooling

• Proficient in Automation and UAT test suite/framework

• Experience designing QA frameworks or platforms used by multiple teams

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Understanding of software architecture and design patterns

• Ability to work in an agile development environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data validation tooling (e.g., Great Expectations) or labeling workflows

• Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)

• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes

• Experience with data pipelines and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Metaflow)

• Familiarity with MLOps practices (model monitoring, drift, deployment checks)

• Experience with ML evaluation methods, metrics, and benchmarking

• Passion for learning new technologies and improving existing systems

• Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Experience testing ML services in production environments

• Knowledge of experiment tracking tools (e.g., Comet, MLflow, Weights & Biases)

The Ideal Candidate

• You demonstrate initiative to provide solutions and to learn and develop new technologies

• Comfortable building QA systems from scratch and writing maintainable automation

• You enjoy learning and collaborating across global locations

• You are comfortable working in newly forming ambiguous areas

• You are comfortable building scalable and maintainable systems that will be relied on by others

• You can communicate well with others

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.