Senior Data Engineer, AI/ML (Toronto, Hybrid / Remote)

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking a skilled Sr. Data Engineer to join our Machine Learning Engineering team within the Access domain. This role is critical in enabling the development and deployment of scalable ML solutions by building and maintaining the robust data pipelines, data prep and contributing to infrastructure that powers them. You will work closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to design pipelines, prepare training data, and ensure data quality, security, and availability across the lifecycle of our AI/ML products.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Development: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient data pipelines to support ML model training, inference, and analytics

• ETL/ELT Engineering: Build and manage ETL/ELT workflows to extract data from various sources, transform it for feature engineering, and load it into cloud data warehouses and model stores

• Data Preparation for ML: Collaborate with ML engineers to gather, clean, and curate datasets for training and evaluation. Implement processes for labeling, versioning, and partitioning datasets

• Data Infrastructure: Contribute to the development of data platforms and infrastructure on AWS (e.g., S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR) to support ML workflows and high-throughput data processing

• Data Quality & Governance: Monitor data integrity, freshness, and availability; enforce data validation checks and lineage tracking to ensure reliable ML model behavior

• Automation & Orchestration: Automate data workflows using orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions to enable reproducible and scheduled data operations

• Collaboration & Integration: Work closely with ML engineers, product managers, and analytics teams to understand data needs, optimize schemas, and expose data via APIs or query interfaces. You will work closely with business stakeholders to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs

• Performance Optimization: Optimize data queries, storage, and transfer to reduce cost and latency for ML model training and real-time features

• Documentation & Best Practices: Document data sources, pipelines, and workflows, and promote engineering best practices across the ML platform team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer working on large-scale data infrastructure, preferably in ML or AI environments

• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with Spark, PySpark, or other distributed data frameworks

• Hands-on experience with AWS, including S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, and Step Functions

• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and orchestration using tools like Airflow, Luigi, or similar

• Experience in working and analyzing data on notebook solutions like Jupyter, EMR Notebooks, Apache Zeppelin

• Familiarity with data warehousing, stream processing, and data modeling principles

• Strong understanding of data lifecycle, governance, versioning, and reproducibility in ML contexts

• Experience with version control and CICD tools like Git and Jenkins CI

• Proactive problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills; ability to make sound, complex decisions in a fast-paced, technical environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in cross-functional ML teams and working with ML Ops teams

• Familiarity with ML concepts (e.g., feature stores, model inputs/outputs, retraining triggers)

• Experience with tools like Feast, Delta Lake, or data lakehouse architectures.

• Exposure to containerization (Docker) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

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