Senior Structural Engineer, R&D

About the role

Veev is a subsidiary of Lennar, focusing on innovative modular home construction. The company's vertically integrated approach combines real estate, design, development, engineering, manufacturing, and construction. This role is crucial for developing and validating structural solutions that enhance Veev's high-quality homebuilding process.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and validation of structural solutions for Veev’s closed-panel building systems.
• Partner with the R&D Architect, MEP engineering, and prototype teams to integrate structural requirements into early-stage architectural, product, and building-system concepts.
• Develop practical structural details and assembly strategies that account for code compliance, constructability, DFMA principles, manufacturing constraints, installation sequence, inspection requirements, and field execution.
• Perform structural analysis, calculations, and technical evaluations to validate concepts, justify design decisions, and support internal or external engineering review.
• Evaluate structural risks and constraints related to panelized construction, light-frame or light-gauge systems, lateral load paths, openings, penetrations, fastening, tolerances, transportation, lifting, and site installation.
• Support root-cause analysis and problem solving for structural issues identified through prototyping, factory builds, NPI, quality feedback, construction execution, or jurisdictional review.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external engineering partners to develop new structural solutions, improve existing models, and validate new technologies before formal release.
• Help define structural design rules, technical standards, lessons learned, connection details, and scalable building-system approaches for future Veev models.
• Communicate structural decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly through calculations, sketches, details, design reviews, and written technical summaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of hands-on structural engineering, building systems, construction technology, product development, manufacturing, or structural design experience.
• Strong working knowledge of structural behavior, load paths, framing systems, connections, anchorage, bracing, lateral systems, and code-informed design.
• Experience with light-frame construction, cold-formed steel, light-gauge steel, wood framing, panelized construction, modular construction, prefabricated building systems, or similar building-system platforms.
• Proven ability to solve practical structural, manufacturing, installation, or construction problems in real-world environments.
• Experience developing structural details, calculations, design studies, prototype concepts, mockups, test plans, validation methods, or technical recommendations.
• Familiarity with DFMA, first-article validation, prototype testing, structural testing, product lifecycle development, or similar methods for validating new building-system solutions.
• Strong understanding of structural coordination within architectural, MEP, manufacturing, transportation, installation, inspection, and field execution constraints.
• Strong Revit experience, with the ability to develop, review, and coordinate structural information within BIM-based project workflows.
• Proficiency with CAD, structural analysis, or technical documentation workflows, with the ability to develop and review drawings, sketches, calculations, and assembly details.
• Able to independently structure ambiguous technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive practical engineering decisions.
• Self-motivated, inquisitive, and comfortable exercising independent judgment in early-stage R&D, prototype, or product-development environments.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to explain structural issues, risks, assumptions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 7 years of hands-on structural engineering, building systems, construction technology, product development, manufacturing, or structural design experience.
• Strong working knowledge of structural behavior, load paths, framing systems, connections, anchorage, bracing, lateral systems, and code-informed design.
• Experience with light-frame construction, cold-formed steel, light-gauge steel, wood framing, panelized construction, modular construction, prefabricated building systems, or similar building-system platforms.
• Proven ability to solve practical structural, manufacturing, installation, or construction problems in real-world environments.
• Experience developing structural details, calculations, design studies, prototype concepts, mockups, test plans, validation methods, or technical recommendations.
• Familiarity with DFMA, first-article validation, prototype testing, structural testing, product lifecycle development, or similar methods for validating new building-system solutions.
• Strong understanding of structural coordination within architectural, MEP, manufacturing, transportation, installation, inspection, and field execution constraints.
• Strong Revit experience, with the ability to develop, review, and coordinate structural information within BIM-based project workflows.
• Proficiency with CAD, structural analysis, or technical documentation workflows, with the ability to develop and review drawings, sketches, calculations, and assembly details.
• Able to independently structure ambiguous technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive practical engineering decisions.
• Self-motivated, inquisitive, and comfortable exercising independent judgment in early-stage R&D, prototype, or product-development environments.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to explain structural issues, risks, assumptions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.

Skills

• Strong working knowledge of structural behavior, load paths, framing systems, connections, anchorage, bracing, lateral systems, and code-informed design.
• Experience with light-frame construction, cold-formed steel, light-gauge steel, wood framing, panelized construction, modular construction, prefabricated building systems, or similar building-system platforms.
• Proven ability to solve practical structural, manufacturing, installation, or construction problems in real-world environments.
• Experience developing structural details, calculations, design studies, prototype concepts, mockups, test plans, validation methods, or technical recommendations.
• Familiarity with DFMA, first-article validation, prototype testing, structural testing, product lifecycle development, or similar methods for validating new building-system solutions.
• Strong understanding of structural coordination within architectural, MEP, manufacturing, transportation, installation, inspection, and field execution constraints.
• Strong Revit experience, with the ability to develop, review, and coordinate structural information within BIM-based project workflows.
• Proficiency with CAD, structural analysis, or technical documentation workflows, with the ability to develop and review drawings, sketches, calculations, and assembly details.
• Able to independently structure ambiguous technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive practical engineering decisions.
• Self-motivated, inquisitive, and comfortable exercising independent judgment in early-stage R&D, prototype, or product-development environments.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to explain structural issues, risks, assumptions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.

Benefits

Veev offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Paid vacations, sick, and holidays
• Health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Subsidized Life insurance, with voluntary option
• Subsidized Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Growth & Development Opportunities