Senior Software Engineer, Localization Engineering

Autodesk
Vancouver
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeCAD 107,000 - 157,300 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Localization Engineering to architect scalable AI-driven localization systems. Lead end-to-end localization pipelines (NMT, LLMs, QE, APE), design production-grade backends and integrations, and act as the technical authority on localization standards across Autodesk products and content at enterprise scale.

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Senior Software Engineer, Localization Engineering

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Localization Engineering to architect scalable AI-driven localization systems. Lead end-to-end localization pipelines (NMT, LLMs, QE, APE), design production-grade backends and integrations, and act as the technical authority on localization standards across Autodesk products and content at enterprise scale.
Location: Vancouver
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect next-generation localization workflows combining NMT and LLM-based refinement using frameworks such as LangChain.
  • •Design and implement reference-free Quality Estimation (QE) systems using COMET, BLEURT, or custom LLM evaluators to predict translation quality without reference data.
  • •Develop and fine-tune Automated Post-Editing (APE) solutions to improve translation fluency, terminology accuracy, and stylistic consistency.
  • •Fine-tune transformer-based models (Hugging Face) using Autodesk translation memory and glossary data to capture domain-specific voice and terminology.
  • •Build scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices to support automated localization workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 107,000 - 157,300 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • •6+ years of software engineering experience, with significant backend or AI/ML focus
  • •Strong proficiency in Python and experience with transformer-based models (Hugging Face or similar)
  • •Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying models using AWS (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock)
  • •Experience building APIs, microservices, and system integrations
Experience:6+ yearsLocalizationAINLPMachine translation
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonHugging FaceLangChainSageMakerBedrockBLEURTCOMETTransformersAWSAPIsMicroservicesSQLNoSQL

Company Brief

Autodesk
Provides design and engineering software for architecture, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries, offering CAD, BIM, and 3D modeling tools to enable product and infrastructure design workflows.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Rafael, United States
Founded: 1982
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