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About the Role

The Designer I role is an entry-level professional position responsible for supporting project teams through design exploration, visualization, documentation, and technical development. Designer I team members actively participate in the RIOS design process while building foundational expertise in project delivery, sustainability, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design process through ideation, modeling, drafting, visualization, and technical production across project phases.
• Assist in the preparation of graphics, diagrams, renderings, presentations, and early technical documentation aligned with project goals and design intent.
• Communicate design concepts and thinking through visual, written, and verbal presentations.
• Contribute innovative ideas and proactively engage in project tasks and team discussions.
• Participate in research, precedent studies, sustainability investigations, and early technical explorations.
• Support project teams in maintaining organized project files, documentation, and collaboration platforms.
• Support project teams through digital modeling, visualization, documentation, and presentation development.

Requirements

• Strong design sensibility and passion for creativity and innovation.
• Strong graphic communication and visualization skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
• High degree of self-motivation, curiosity, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Ability to work effectively in collaborative and interdisciplinary team environments and contribute to positive office culture.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Commitment to sustainable and responsible design practices.
• Eagerness to learn and grow an understanding of project documentation standards, BIM workflows, file organization, and model management best practices.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture or equivalent professional experience.
• 0–3 years of professional experience in architecture
• Familiarity with software such as Revit, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), and other visualization or modeling tools.
• Working knowledge of BIM workflows preferred.
• Experience with Lumion, Grasshopper, Dynamo, SignAgent, or similar design technologies is a plus.

Skills

• Revit
• Rhino
• Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
• Visualization tools
• Modeling tools
• BIM workflows
• Lumion
• Grasshopper
• Dynamo
• SignAgent

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry-level
• 0-3 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture
• Master's degree in Architecture

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• 401k matching
• PTO package
• Reduced summer work hours

About the Company

• RIOS is an international design collective.
• We are actively in pursuit of wonder within the design of the built environment.
• We believe design is an act of optimism through which invention and ideas change the world.
• We practice interconnected design across architecture, placemaking, landscape architecture, and experience design to define design as a continuum.
• We follow a process that begins with attunement, where program and context shape strong conceptual thinking to establish a holistically informed big idea through which we develop form, confirm function, and define experience.
• This serves as the foundation for exploring ecology, materiality, sustainability, and tectonic expression.
• We are known for bold solutions that are inclusive of the wider context and grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, resulting in resilient, innovative, and meaningful design outcomes.

Equal Opportunity

• RIOS is an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified candidates with arrests/ conviction records will not be excluded from consideration.