Founding Architect

1zu100; München; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity stake

Fast-paced startup

Unlimited coffee

Wellpass

Job summary

1zu100 is seeking an excellent architect with 5+ years in German multi-unit residential buildings to validate AI-generated plans, justify decisions, and lead quality across live projects in Munich.

You will work with founders and partner offices from design to permit planning, help define architectural style, and contribute to a fast-growing startup that values hands-on problem solving and innovative workflows.

Qualifications

• A degree in architecture.
• 5+ years of work experience in multi-unit residential buildings (Geschosswohnungsbau).
• German at B2 level or higher.
• High agency and an entrepreneurial drive.
• Nice to have: a Master's degree, Bauvorlageberechtigung, experience with BIM, scripting or AI tooling, and a non-linear CV.

Responsibilities

• Validate AI-produced plans within real projects and fix issues.
• Present results to clients, partner architects and developers, and defend decisions.
• Take projects across Leistungsphasen from Entwurf to Ausführungsplanung with founders and partner offices.
• Help shape the architectural style of 1zu100 together with the team.

Skills

German (B2)

Entrepreneurial drive

Geschosswohnungsbau experience

Education

Architecture degree

Tools

BIM

AI tooling

Job description

Build the future of architecture

1zu100 is automating construction planning. Together with exceptional architecture firms, we plan multi-unit residential buildings and deliver completed, permitted plans as a service.

TL;DR

We are hiring an excellent architect with 5+ years in German multi-unit residential buildings (Geschosswohnungsbau) who wants to plan buildings the way it will be done, not the way it has always been done. Our AI executes the details and the chore work in parallel. You validate what it produces, stand behind it in front of clients and create the architectural style of 1zu100. Munich, on-site, start as soon as possible.

The core of the role

• You validate what our AI produces within real projects: confirm that each plan is sound, set out the reasoning, and fix what isn't. Your judgment is the quality gate.

• You present the results to clients, partner architects and developers, explain the decisions behind them and defend them under challenge.

• You take projects across the Leistungsphasen, from Entwurf to Bauantrag to Ausführungsplanung, alongside the founders and our partner offices.

• You create the architectural style of 1zu100. There is no established way of working yet. You build it with us.

Contributing to the technology

• Formalize how good residential planning works (ratios, grids, rules of thumb, code thresholds) into criteria the engineering team can build on.

• Assess model outputs and help define the standards for architectural quality our evals measure against.

• Work daily with the founders and engineers in the same loop. What you flag today is fixed in the tool tomorrow.

What we're looking for

• A degree in architecture.

• 5+ years of work experience in multi-unit residential buildings (Geschosswohnungsbau).

• German at B2 level or higher.

• High agency and an entrepreneurial drive. You know how much chore work sits in architecture, and you understand that AI is going to change architecture and construction drastically.

• Nice to have: a Master's degree, Bauvorlageberechtigung, experience with BIM, scripting or AI tooling, and a non-linear CV.

What we offer

• Co-building the next generation of architecture

• Exposure to a volume and speed of projects no traditional office can offer

• Room to grow into a leading role as we scale

• Competitive salary and a stake in the company, with first-hire upside

• A fast-paced environment at a fast-growing startup, with a steep learning curve

• Wellpass and unlimited coffee from a professional barista

We're a small team with an extremely high bar. If you want to work deeply on hard problems and change the way construction planning is done, you're the one we need.

How we hire

1. An intro call with the founders.

2. A planning task. We pick a challenge together and you plan it with our tools for a day, so both of us see how we actually work together and whether joining 1zu100 feels right for you and us.

We care about who you are, not just what's on your CV.

If you're drawn to what we're building but don't meet every requirement, we still want to hear from you. Studies show that women in particular tend to apply only when they meet 100% of the criteria. If that's you, please don't let that hold you back. We'd love to receive your application.