Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer specializing in web development for Autodesk's Design System. This hands-on role (~70% coding / 30% enablement) involves building and maintaining React-based UI components for a design system used across Autodesk products, leading technical decisions, conducting thorough code reviews, and establishing quality gates. Responsibilities include implementing front-end work end-to-end, enforcing architecture and security standards, advocating AI-assisted development practices, creating playbooks for refactors and testing with AI tools, defining done criteria, and collaborating with QA, design, and product teams across time zones. The role also emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving cross-team improvements, and engaging with customers to turn learnings into durable product enhancements. Minimum qualifications include extensive React/TypeScript experience, strong debugging and testing skills, design-system experience, accessibility/ performance focus, and demonstrated ability to mentor teams in effective AI usage. Preferred emphasis on leading AI-enabled engineering, brownfield modernization, and operating within established architectural standards.