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More than 13,000 customers, including Duracell, McDonald's, Shell, DHL and Volvo, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 13.9 million managed assets and 79.5 million completed work orders.\nIn August 2026 MaintainX became part of Autodesk, joiningAutodesk 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.\nWe're growing fast and hiring the Engineering talent to match.\nThe team and the mission\nYou'd be joining our backend team within the Platform Engineering division.\nWe're building an AI-native platform for our internal developers, over 150 of them, guided by a single question: does this shorten the time from idea to value, for the teams building on our platform and for the customers they ultimately serve?\nThe smooth path is the safe, fast path, because the platform makes it the default. 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Factories, fleets, hospitals and campuses stay up because the people who maintain them have tools worth using. That is what we build.\nCompensation 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.\nBelonging. We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive. More at autodesk.com/company/global-belonging. 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