Design Automation Engineer, Architecture

Responsibilities

Longer-term, it's shipping the features that make the architect-plus-developer loop 10x faster: generation of compliant, priced design options organized as a tree, with real-time pro forma recalculated at every branch; zoning and code compliance checked at every design decision; a predictive AHJ model that tunes each permit submission to the jurisdiction and reviewer before filing. Every option the architect shows a developer is already zoning-compliant, code-compliant, manufacturable, and priced. The architect keeps design authorship; your tools do everything else.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production software in a team codebase (CI/CD, code review).
• Strong architectural instincts for building iterable, maintainable systems. We want someone whose code a teammate can extend.
• Real depth in how a building comes together and in how architects create and manage a project. Architectural training, or substantial experience working inside architectural workflows.
• Mandatory: 5+ years shipping production software in a team codebase (CI/CD, code review).
• Required: 5+ years shipping production software in a team codebase (CI/CD, code review).
• Enough conviction to push back on a feature request, not just build what you're handed.
• Working knowledge of a parametric or BIM design stack. Revit + Dynamo most relevant; Rhino + Grasshopper, Archicad, or equivalent counts.
• Exercises good AI judgment. You've formed a critical, informed point of view on where and when to use LLM APIs and AI-assisted development and where not to.

Nice to Have

• Revit API / Autodesk Platform Services/plug-in development
• CAD automation at a manufacturing or industrialized construction company
• Experience building AI-powered product features (generative models or LLMs inside a production pipeline) as distinct from using AI to assist your own development

First 12 Months

• A Revit/consultant exchange layer robust enough that external partners don't bottleneck our process or dictate our tooling.
• Architect-side automation that cuts value-engineering and costing iterations from days to hours.
• At least one production AI feature in the architect-developer loop (design-tree generation, real-time costing, zoning/code compliance, or our predictive AHJ model) shipped to real users.