Build Group

Computational Designer

New York City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago

PythonGIS

About the role

Every output, every workflow, every client deliverable is an expression of what we believe AI and expert services can become when you remove the boundary between them.
Someone who looks at the built environment and sees systems, not drawings.

Build the computational design stack that powers Build's delivery across infrastructure, industrial, office and urban projects - from site selection and early massing through to technical due diligence and design automation.
Work directly with domain experts and engineers to identify the hardest design questions and build AI-driven systems that answer them.
Define Build's AI-native approach to design - not just tooling on top of existing practice, but new systems that fundamentally change what is possible.
Build the AI factory for design: a production system where outputs improve, workflows scale, and the full range of the built environment can be addressed faster than any traditional practice.
Comfortable working across design, data and software in the same week without waiting for a handoff.
A genuine point of view on what AI-native design means. Not a feature set. A position.
Relevant backgrounds include computational design, architectural technology, geospatial engineering, parametric design, spatial computing.

You can operate at pace in ambiguous conditions and hold a high bar without being told to.
You have built tools, not just used them.

The scope runs from critical infrastructure and data centres to industrial, office, urban and beyond.

Likely background at a top-tier architecture or engineering firm with a serious computational practice, or you founded your own with this at its centre.

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