Architectural Designer

About the role

The Boring Company is seeking an Architectural Designer to help design, plan, and carry out construction projects in cities across the world. We aim to solve traffic problems by creating an underground network of tunnels, increasing tunneling speed, and decreasing costs.

Responsibilities

• Apply a first principles approach to design production: simplify requirements, delete unnecessary process steps, optimize, accelerate production, and automate.
• Assist in the design of tunnel support structures and underground connectors, and support high-level planning and concept design for stations and alignments.
• Support coordination directly with individual hotel and property clients to ensure station and connector design aligns with their brand and property style.
• Assist project teams in the production of quality documents from initial concepts to construction documents.
• Interface with Structural, Civil, MEP, and in-house teams to ensure design intent is carried through across disciplines.
• Research building codes, materials, and industry guidelines to develop details and comprehensive and constructible drawings.
• Implement QC measures and ensure deliverables comply with requirements.
• Make sound, timely decisions, involving appropriate people in the process.
• Ensure projects meet client agreements, budgets, goals, and work assignments.
• Professionally communicate assignments to staff, consultants, and vendors.
• Occasional travel required.

Requirements

• Professional degree in Architecture.
• 2-4 years of professional design experience on commercial, infrastructure, or industrial projects.
• High proficiency in Revit in a professional office setting.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D.
• A portfolio demonstrating relevant project work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Rhino.
• Experience in infrastructure, transportation, or industrial/manufacturing project types.
• Experience working within large, multi-disciplinary team environments.
• Background on the owner side of large-scale projects (e.g., aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, oil & gas).
• Scripting experience with visual programming automation tools (Dynamo and Grasshopper).
• Proficiency in visualization tools such as Lumion, Enscape, V-ray, Keyshot, Unreal, or Twinmotion.