Computational Designer

Build Technologies • New York, NY

10d • $125,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The role sits at the centre of Build's mission to integrate AI and expert services in design. The company is looking for a computational designer with experience from leading architecture or engineering firms, or who has built their own practice focused on computational geometry. This individual will be responsible for developing the AI factory for design, creating a stack of workflows, tools, and models to make design work faster, smarter, and compounding across various asset classes, including critical infrastructure, data centres, industrial, office, and urban projects. The ambition is to define AI-native design as a new model for how design work is done, rather than just a productivity improvement.

Requirements

• Strong computational design background: Python, GIS, parametric and geometric workflows.
• Experience building tools, not just using them.
• Likely background at a top-tier architecture or engineering firm with a serious computational practice, or founded your own with this at its centre.
• Understanding of how the built environment works across scales - from a single building to a master plan to a piece of critical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of the difference between a design decision and a delivery decision.
• 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.
• High executive function: ability to operate at pace in ambiguous conditions and hold a high bar without being told to.
• Relevant backgrounds include computational design, architectural technology, geospatial engineering, parametric design, spatial computing.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translate spatial and site-specific problems into fast, reproducible workflows that compound over time and work across asset classes.
• 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.
• Contribute directly to live client work across 15+ countries.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed