Autodesk is looking to build datasets and benchmarks that power generative AI features in their products by hiring a researcher to work at the intersection of AI Research, HCI, and product.
Requirements
- Excellent software engineering skills, including Machine Learning.
- Experience with collecting human data for training and evaluating ML models.
- Strong data modeling, architecture, and processing skills with varied data representations including 2D and 3D geometry.
- Experience with computational geometry, CAD data, and 3D formats such as meshes, boundary representations (BReps), or implicit representations.
- Familiarity with the latest developments in ML models, datasets, training pipelines, and benchmarks, and the ability to translate new research into practical tools and workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own research projects at the intersection of AI dataset curation, ML benchmarking, and HCI.
- Design and run human experiments related to AI tool use for design.
- Develop and deploy scalable data collection techniques and pipelines for machine learning.
- Organize and curate large, unstructured, disparate multi-modal (text, images, 3D models, code snippets, metadata) data sources into a unified format suitable for machine learning.
- Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights to other researchers and leadership.
- Co-write original research papers.
- Write robust, testable code that is well-documented and easy to understand.
Other
- Current PhD Student in HCI, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Excellent communication skills to document code, produce visualizations, and present findings from experiments.
- Demonstrates curiosity, creativity, and self-motivation, with a collaborative mindset and the flexibility to adapt to new challenges and evolving research directions.
- Motivated by the opportunity to apply machine learning to real-world challenges in design, manufacturing, construction, and media & entertainment.
- The 2026 U.S. program runs for 12 weeks (May 18 – August 7 or June 15 – September 4).
