Applied AI Engineer
MaintainX (An Autodesk Company)
Company websitegetmaintainx.com (MaintainX (An Autodesk Company), opens in new tab)
Base salary $152K to $271K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA +3 more
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA +3 more
- WorkplaceHybrid
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
All 4 locations
- San Francisco
- Austin
- New York
- Seattle
About this job
MaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 15,000 customers, including McDonalds, Michaels, Cintas, Redimix, and U.S. LBM, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 16 million managed assets and 92 million completed work orders.
In August 2026 MaintainX became part of Autodesk, joining Autodesk Operations Solutions, the organization unifying Autodesk's operations platform alongside Tandem, FlexSim and Fusion Operations. Autodesk's strategy is to converge design, make and operate into one continuous lifecycle: design an asset, build it, run it, then feed what you learn running it back into the next design. Autodesk had design and make. Operate is the phase that tells you what actually happened, and it is ours.
Frontier models are getting commoditized. The operating data underneath them isn't — and that's what we own. 13.9M+ managed assets, 79.5M+ completed work orders, and 150,000+ technicians generating trustworthy operating data every week, at the point of work.
Document Intelligence is the horizontal engine that turns that raw material — any file a customer hands us — into structured, trustworthy maintenance knowledge, and into the AI-native entities and answers built on top of it.
The Role
You'll own the Generation half of Document Intelligence: turning multimodal primitives (keyframes, transcripts, OCR) into schema-valid entities like SOPs, and holding the line on quality so "fast" never becomes "fast and wrong."
Design and iterate recipe prompts — system, few-shot, and context assembly — for each generation recipe
Define per-entity target schemas and domain validators (procedure step-type rules, field caps) that generated output has to pass
Build generation-quality eval datasets and rubrics, offline and online, running on LLMX's eval pipeline, and close the loop when quality regresses
Assemble multimodal context windows from keyframes, transcript, and OCR so each model call has exactly what it needs
Choose the model and token budget per recipe based on quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
You'll ride on LLMX for model access and on Attachments for ingestion, and hand off validated entities to the domains that own them. You'll report to our Engineering Lead and work closely with the Processing side of Document Intelligence.
Minimum Requirements:
Strong applied GenAI craft - prompt engineering, structured output / tool-use, RAG and retrieval-context patterns
Real eval discipline: you've built datasets and rubrics, measured factuality/relevance/quality, and closed the loop on regressions yourself
Shipped LLM features into production services, not notebooks, and can connect model performance to product impact
Comfort working with multimodal inputs - video, PDF, audio, image - converted to text or structured output
Nice to have:
LLM observability / cost awareness, or experience with an eval platform
Document, PDF, or video understanding; OCR; retrieval systems
Light fine-tuning experience, or familiarity with the industrial/maintenance domain
Our mission is to keep the physical world running. Factories, fleets, hospitals and campuses stay up because the people who maintain them have tools worth using. That is what we build.
Compensation and benefits. Base pay is one part of the package. Depending on the role, compensation may also include commission, an annual bonus and equity. Benefits differ by country. For roles in the United States, Autodesk’s benefits are described at benefits.autodesk.com. For roles in Canada and other countries, the plan differs on health coverage, retirement and leave, and your recruiter will walk you through it.
Belonging. We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive. More at autodesk.com/company/global-belonging. More on where this is going: Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on building the future of connected operations, and AOS SVP Stephen Hooper on welcoming MaintainX to Autodesk.
Source: MaintainX (An Autodesk Company) on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($152,000) is above 21% of the 1,470 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 20 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $190,000; the middle half runs from $160,000 to $229,900.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingApplied AI Engineer$152K to $271K
Software Development Manager, AI Builder Tools$150K to $265K
Product Design Manager$160K to $236K
Principal Full-Stack Developer - Core$170K to $296K
Principal Full-Stack Developer - Platform & Infrastructure$170K to $296K
Senior AI Platform Engineer$132K to $262K
Senior Applied Machine Learning Developer, Asset Intelligence$131,400 to $236,000
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Applied AI Engineer (this listing) | $152K - $271K |
| Software Development Manager, AI Builder Tools | $150K - $265K |
| Product Design Manager | $160K - $236K |
| Principal Full-Stack Developer - Core | $170K - $296K |
| Principal Full-Stack Developer - Platform & Infrastructure | $170K - $296K |
| Senior AI Platform Engineer | $132K - $262K |
| Senior Applied Machine Learning Developer, Asset Intelligence | $131,400 - $236,000 |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-04
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Multiple locations (4)
USD 152,000 – 271,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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