A San Francisco-based software maker is reportedly the latest tech company to announce job cuts as part of a push toward artificial intelligence. Design software maker Autodesk plans to slash roughly 7% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, according to a report in Reuters.
The job cuts come as Autodesk is reportedly redirecting resources to its cloud platform and push toward AI. The job cuts, according to Reuters, will mostly come from sales teams.
As of around this time last year, Autodesk had around 15,300 employees globally. The company, which has its global headquarters in San Francisco, also has an Asian Pacific HQ in Singapore and a European HQ in Dublin.
Autodesk, which is the maker of design software platform AutoCAD, said the move will result in pretax restructuring charges of between $135 million and $160 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, which also reported the news.
The reported Autodesk layoffs follow 1,000 job cuts from Facebook-parent company Meta earlier this month as the first major Bay Area tech job cuts of 2026.