Computational Designer

About the role

This role sits within Cedar’s architecture team and partners closely with product and engineering to scale how feasibility work is done. You’ll work hands-on with project designers to produce early-stage 3D design studies, while also helping define the workflows, tools, and feedback loops that turn feasibility into a repeatable, high-quality system.

Responsibilities

• Partner with project designers during feasibility to generate 3D design studies and early massing options for real development sites.
• Help define and standardize feasibility workflows so outcomes are repeatable, accurate, and scalable across projects and markets.
• Evaluate how feasibility work is produced today, identify bottlenecks and quality gaps, and propose improvements to process and tooling.
• Bridge between the architecture team and Cedar’s software engineers by providing structured feedback on tools, workflows, and data needs.
• Contribute to the evolution of Cedar’s internal design systems as they expand into later phases of design and delivery.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in computational or parametric design within an architecture or design practice.
• Strong proficiency with tools like Rhino + Grasshopper (or similar parametric design environments).
• Experience translating design intent into repeatable workflows or toolchains is a plus.
• Comfortable working on ambiguous, early-stage problems where process is still being defined.