Forward Deployed Architect (Founding Team)
About the role
This is a product-first, customer-facing role as a Forward Deployed Architect at Structured. The role involves translating architectural expertise into autonomous AI agents and deploying them directly into leading architecture firms.
Responsibilities
Translate architectural objects, plan logic, and code requirements into structured patterns and agent logic our AI can execute.
Prototype and deploy QA/QC checks and agent workflows end-to-end in our codebase (we work in Cursor and Claude Code, git, daily ships).
Deploy dedicated environments and tailored check suites into enterprise architecture practices, then watch them run against real drawing sets.
Take what you build for one firm and turn the best of it into public, platform-wide checks every customer benefits from.
Run technical discovery and demos with top-tier firms, map their internal standards and pain points, present directly to principals and project architects, and run champion check-ins through the life of the contract.
Requirements
Trained Architect: You studied architecture and have 4+ years in practice. You can look at a floor plan and understand why a requirement exists, not just that it does.
Code Literate: You have a working understanding of how building-code systems are structured: model codes (IBC/IRC), how local jurisdictions adopt and amend them, accessibility (ADA), zoning and life-safety logic, and how custom client standards layer on top. You don't need every clause memorized. You need to know how to read a code, find what governs, and reason about why.
Knows the Process: You've lived the architectural workflow end-to-end: schematic design through CDs, the redline/QA-QC cycle, drawing sets and sheet conventions, RFIs and submittals, ASIs and addenda, consultant coordination, and the handoffs between architect, engineer, and contractor. You understand where errors creep in and what a reviewer is actually looking for.
AI Native: You already live in AI tools. You reach for them by default, you have a feel for what models can and can't do, and you're energized by where the technology is heading.
Builder Mindset: You can code. You can ship a feature, use git, and reason about agent logic. You cannot come in not knowing how to build. We'll level you up fast, but the foundation has to be there. You're naturally inclined to automate your own workflow.
Owner: You take tasks independently and assign them when needed. You thrive without hand-holding in an early-stage environment.
Practitioner-Communicator: You're part of the architecture community, speak the lingo, and engage credibly with firms from first call to deployed feature.
Qualifications
Licensed (RA), a plus, not required.
Experience with Revit / BIM / IFC coordination.
Early-stage startup experience.
An existing network in the architecture community.
Skills
AI
Architecture
Code
Customer Success
Product Management
Benefits
Full-time compensation range: $90K to $140K
Consulting option: Competitive hourly or project-based rate
Pay
$90K to $140K
Schedule
Full-time