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Principal Engineer, Urban Design and Analytics (15WD19257)
Description
How would you like to help us make a SimCity – for real cities? Make an Impact – help us build the world’s first integrated platform for 3D urban design, analysis and civic engagement!! We are looking for a stellar Principal Engineer, Urban Design and Analyticsto help us make a difference in the Urban Planning team at Autodesk. If interested, apply today.
Job Title & Number: Principal Engineer/Requisition #15WD19257
Location: San Francisco, CA
About the role
- Did (or do) you love playing SimCity?
- Do you love the idea of helping cities become more vibrant and sustainable?
- Do you love 3D Design and Visualization?
- Do you love Data Science and interactively analyzing massive urban datasets.
- Do you want to part of a group with start-up like culture within a global company dedicated to making the world better through integrating design and analysis?
If you answered YES to most of these questions, then you should consider a career in Autodesk’s Urban Planning team.
- We have fantastic and cohesive team of software engineers, urban planners, and designers working together to build the world’s first integrated 3D design, analytics, and civic engagement platform: Urban Canvas.
- We are led by the designer of UrbanSim, an open source urban simulation platform used widely to simulate urban development and inform major transportation investments and land use policies.
- We are a small but growing team, and you will literally make an impact starting your first month here.
- You will be working on projects that make a critical impact. You’ll be visible.
Join us and become part of the development of a new path-breaking software platform to plan and design better cities around the world and to support interactive geospatial analytics. The Autodesk urban planning team is looking for talented engineers who have a passion to apply their skills to help solving some of the most critical challenges of our time. As part of the urban planning team, you will be contributing to the development of cloud-centric desktop and mobile applications for urban design, visualization and analytics.
To be successful in this role, you must be passionate about solving complex problems and engaging in creative thinking as part of your daily job. You must have significant professional experience in designing and implementing software platforms and applications that respond to needs and requirements of real users in real-world workflows. You must be a person who enjoys being part of an innovative team in which people are driven by professional ambition and technical challenges, but also by a genuine desire to help each other in reaching a shared goal. And last but definitely not least — you need to be dedicated and have the persistence to engineer the highest quality code – not prototypes.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop key components of Urban Canvas (client and server) as part of a collaborative team, and/or contribute to analytics using data science tools
- Contribute to a user experience that emphasizes flexibility and elegant design
- Influence the design of our platform, drawing on your experience and vision
- Refactor code to update dependencies, improve performance and stability
- Develop automated tests and improve code coverage
- Write effective documentation
- Accurately estimate work effort for user stories in sprints
- Present technology concepts clearly
- Communicate and collaborate effectively in an Agile environment
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Master’s degree (M.S.) in computer science or related field, or Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) and equivalent work experience
- Significant work experience in developing large-scale applications in a team
- Full understanding of Object-Oriented programming paradigms
- Knowledge of industry best practices and good software architecture
- Understanding of current trends in web development
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to take a team lead position
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge and experience with client-side and server-side C++ applications
- Experience in creating efficient and reliable JavaScript applications that work across platforms
- Working knowledge of HTML 5 and standard web APIsStrong knowledge and experience developing applications using Python
- Experience with data science methods
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience using the Qt framework
- Working knowledge of computer graphics fundamentals and libraries (OpenGL, WebGL)
- Working knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS)
Soft Skills:
- Ability to effectively promote ideas and collaboration at the various levels of the organization
Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category.
Autodesk will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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Primary Location
: Americas-United States of America-California-San Francisco
