Senior Research Engineer

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Autodesk Research partners with academia, industry, and government to explore the future of design, engineering, and making. Our teams combine scientific rigor with creative exploration to transform ideas into technologies that empower people to make anything.

The Manufacturing Industry Futures team focuses on redefining how things are designed and made using data, automation, intelligence, and new forms of human-machine collaboration. We work at the intersection of applied research, industry needs, emerging technology, and Autodesk’s future platforms.

Autodesk Research is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to help shape the future of design and make through applied research in agentic AI, generative AI, design systems, simulation, and creative engineering workflows
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This role is focused on a new research platform exploring completely new ways to design. We are interested in how frontier AI models, agents, knowledge graphs, simulation, and design tools can come together to help people imagine, explore, evaluate, and create in ways that are not possible today.

This is not a role for someone focused only on foundational AI research. We are looking for someone who understands design, engineering, and creative technical workflows, and who is excited by using AI as a practical and creative medium for design and making. You should be curious about how AI can support design thinking, accelerate exploration, automate workflows, connect knowledge across tools, and help people move from intent to outcome.

You will join a fast-paced, experimental, startup-like research team working on emerging AI technologies and their application to industry problems. You will build prototypes, work with both Autodesk products and research tools, experiment with agentic systems, and contribute to a strong research culture that supports innovation, publishing, invention, and technology transfer.

This is an individual contributor role based in London, United Kingdom
. We support hybrid work, and you will work with colleagues across Autodesk Research.

• Conduct applied research into agentic AI workflows for design, engineering, and making.
• Design, build, and test prototypes that explore new ways for people to create, evaluate, and refine designs using AI.
• Develop experimental workflows that combine generative AI, frontier models, agents, MCP-style tool chains, knowledge graphs, design tools, simulation, and engineering data.
• Explore how AI can support design thinking, creative exploration, ideation, iteration, decision‑making, and the movement from concept to manufacturable or buildable outcomes.
• Use AI‑assisted development, rapid prototyping, and “vibe coding” approaches to quickly test ideas, build demonstrations, and learn from experiments.
• Work with Autodesk products, prototype research tools, APIs, and emerging AI systems to create new design and make experiences.
• Apply engineering judgment and domain knowledge to ensure AI‑enabled workflows are useful, grounded, and relevant to real‑world design and industry contexts.
• Collaborate closely with Autodesk Research colleagues in a fast‑moving, multidisciplinary environment.
• Contribute to research projects from early concept through prototyping, experimentation, evaluation, and communication.
• Help translate research insights into prototypes, intellectual property, publications, demonstrations, and potential future platform capabilities.
• Share findings clearly through prototypes, technical documentation, presentations, demos, and research communication.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• A few years of relevant industry, research, applied R&D, product innovation, or advanced prototyping experience.
• Experience using AI tools, agents, generative AI systems, or AI‑assisted workflows in creative, design, engineering, or technical contexts.
• Strong understanding of design thinking, creative…