Design Technologist / BIM Lead - Product Platform

The American Housing Corporation • Austin, TX

10d

About The Position

The American Housing Corporation (AHC) is developing a prefabricated, panelized residential product platform for rowhome and low-rise multifamily applications. The Design Technologist / BIM Lead will own the digital production flow and design automation on the Product team. This role involves implementing BIM-management best-practices, experimenting with cutting-edge AI design automations, and maintaining source-of-truth models for all building components. This position is central to creating a seamless workflow between product development and scalable project delivery, executing across the full stack: design, modeling, documentation, factory, and the field. The ideal candidate thinks in systems and platforms, moves quickly and iteratively, is comfortable in the design-to-manufacturing-to-construction loop, takes ownership beyond traditional architectural boundaries, and is organized and quality-control minded.

Requirements

• Advanced digital workflow / cross-platform fluency: Advanced modeling in Revit, ACC, Rhino, Dynamo, Grasshopper, and visualization software.
• Proven ability to move data across software and platforms and to design how information flows through a toolchain.
• Licensed architect (or on a clear path to licensure).
• 6–10+ years in architecture, with hands-on experience in building-system coordination, modeling, documentation, and construction.
• Strong grasp of architectural documentation fundamentals — what gets documented, and to whom — alongside building-systems integration and CD standards.
• Proven ability to maintain complex systems across multiple product and project iterations.
• Prefabrication / modular / panelized construction
• Product-platform delivery over project-based delivery
• AEC tech background and architectural productization development
• Experience integrating architecture with structural and MEP systems
• Hands-on involvement in construction or prototyping

Nice To Haves

• Agentic / AI-assisted tool development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design automation strategy: Collaborate with Product and Software teams to determine how the product platform and its workflows scale. Propose methods to expedite product development and scale project delivery across multiple jurisdictions.
• The product platform: Build and maintain a BIM library of kit-of-parts and a rules-based configuration system governing unit layouts, stacking, and variation, all within structural, MEP, manufacturing, and code constraints.
• Staged productization, tied to certification: Advance each component through concept to BIM to construction documentation to field validation.
• BOM integration: Work with Software, Manufacturing, and Construction teams on automating BOM generation from concept feasibility to construction documentation.
• Distribution and handoff: Define how the system is communicated and handed off to manufacturing, the field, jurisdiction authorities, and future projects, including panelization logic, fabrication-intent details, install sequencing, and standards for rapid project progression.
• Integration and documentation control: Act as the connective point across Architecture, Structural, MEP, manufacturing, software, and in-field teams, resolving conflicts in the model rather than the field. Maintain fabrication-aligned BIM models, permit-ready drawing sets, and a controlled component library consistent across every product variation. Produce high-quality drawings for all components. Automate parts of drawing production using the BIM library of parts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior