About the Role
The Design Technologist / BIM Lead will own the digital production flow and design automation on the Product team. You will implement BIM-management best-practices, experiment with cutting edge AI design automations, and maintain the source-of-truth models for all building components. This role is central to creating a seamless workflow between product development and scalable project delivery, executing across design, modeling, documentation, factory, and the field.
Responsibilities
- Design automation strategy, proposing ways to expedite product development and scale project delivery.
- Build and maintain a BIM library of kit-of-parts and rules-based configuration system.
- Advance each component through concept to BIM to construction documentation to field validation.
- Automate BOM generation from concept feasibility to construction documentation.
- Define how the system is communicated and handed off to manufacturing, the field, and jurisdiction authorities.
- Act as the connective point across Architecture, Structural, MEP, manufacturing, software, and in-field teams, resolving conflicts in the model.
- Maintain fabrication-aligned BIM models, permit-ready drawing sets, and a controlled component library.
- Produce high-quality drawings for all components and automate parts of drawing production.
Requirements
- Advanced modeling in Revit, ACC, Rhino, Dynamo, Grasshopper, and visualization software.
- Proven ability to move data across software and platforms and to design information flow 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, building-systems integration, and CD standards.
- Proven ability to maintain complex systems across multiple product and project iterations.
- Experience with prefabrication, modular, or panelized construction.
- Experience with 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.
Skills
- Revit
- ACC
- Rhino
- Dynamo
- Grasshopper
- Visualization software
- BIM
- Design automation
- AI design automations
- Digital production flow
- Systems thinking
- Platform thinking
- Quality control
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6-10+ years
Education Level
- Licensed architect
About the Company
- The American Housing Corporation is on a mission to solve the America’s housing crisis through all-out housing production.
- We believe that America’s affordability crisis is fundamentally a production crisis, and that solving it requires a vertically integrated development approach: We buy land, design and manufacture, install, and sell our homes directly to customers.
- We're hiring the best engineers, designers, and builders to solve the hardest problem in America.
- We’re based in Austin, TX and build across the country.
