Computational Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, ecologists, and planners to design nature-centric developments, including industrial campuses, residential communities, and landscape restoration projects.
• Use EDEN’s analytical and simulation tools to optimize land-use configurations for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, thermal buffering, and habitat connectivity.
• Develop and visualize design scenarios that balance ecological and human systems, integrating data-driven insight with creative spatial thinking.
• Build computational design workflows to analyze and optimize environmental performance in design projects.
• Translate ecological and spatial data into procedural models that support real-time iteration and informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with software engineers to test, refine, and provide feedback on tools that quantify and simulate ecological processes.
• Work directly with clients to understand project goals, communicate performance outcomes, and guide the application of EDEN’s tools in design development.
• Partner with our ecology and computation teams to ensure that ecological performance metrics are legible, actionable, and embedded in the design process.
• Present design concepts, analysis results, and workflow methodologies to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Requirements

• Advanced degree or equivalent professional experience in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Computational Design.
• A portfolio demonstrating computational and generative design applied to built environment or landscape contexts.
• Proficiency in Houdini for computational geometry and procedural modeling is mandatory.
• Experience with Rhino and Grasshopper workflows is preferred.
• Experience developing workflows for site planning, landscape analysis, or performance-based design.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex environmental data into clear design logic and visualizations.