Principal Software Development Engineer

Position Overview

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer specialized in the Qt Framework. You will be a member of the team that builds and maintains the framework for building the Fusion UI (mostly written in C++ / Qt Framework). Organizationally, you will work in the Platform organization within Autodesk's Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions (PDMS) division making the software platform upon which the Fusion family of products are built. Come help us fulfill our vision to allow developers to deliver Industry Workflows on our client platform to any user.

You are ideal for the position if you are

• A formidable Qt graphics debugger, comfortable with diagnosing hardware-specific issues within the Render Hardware Interface (RHI) and embedded Chromium browser frames

• Experienced with upgrading Qt from one release to another and advising others how to mitigate deprecated functions

• Familiar with differences in Commercial vs LGPL Qt licensing limitations

You will report to the team's Portland Oregon-based Sr. Manager but your position is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Work on a scrum team of about 5 – 8 team members

• Be Fluent in understanding and applying best practices for working in a production codebase for the Fusion user interface framework (C++ / Qt) to deliver high-quality, secure, and stable code

• Develop, troubleshoot, test, and debug Qt widget-based UI components

• Support development of Qt Modeling Language (QML) components in a QWidget-based UI

• Investigate crashes and customer escalations (CERs) that require debugging into Qt source code

• Engage directly with customers to provide technical support for complex issues

• Be a technical leader who leads technical decisions within the team and is fluent in best practices 

• Write technical design documents, participate in design and code reviews within the team and across teams, develop estimates for tasks, and document code

• Work with an extended team of software developers, QAs, and product designers in the US and other worldwide engineering sites

• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives

• Use Git/GitHub and work with build and deployment technologies, such as Jenkins, CMake, Docker containers, and Python

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep working knowledge of the Qt Framework, including threading, signal & slots, events, rendering, and widgets

• 5+ years of experience developing commercial application(s) built on the Qt Framework

• 8+ years of professional C++ programming experience

• Experience using modern macOS (Cocoa) and Windows (Win32) APIs and OS development best practices to enhance the user experience of Fusion as an installed application, including desktop window management, accessibility features, Windows Shell, and the Taskbar/Dock

• Experience reproducing and debugging unique/niche user device configuration issues related to multiple monitors, mixed DPI scaling, security, or other environment-specific factors

• Experience working well in a team to achieve team goals

• Current knowledge of C++ standards and specifications

• Experience with Object-Oriented programming, debugging, software architecture, data structures, algorithms, and STL

• Proficient in written and verbal English

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related technical discipline

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