Architectural Design Engineer (Founding Team)

Structured AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Structured AI seeks an Architectural Design Engineer (Founding Team) to bridge architectural practice and frontier AI. You will translate floor plans, building envelopes, and codes into autonomous AI agents deployed to leading architecture firms.

You’ll work directly with the CTO and CPO, shipping checks and environments for real clients while owning the engagement from discovery to deployment.

Qualifications

• Trained Architect with deep design practice and understanding of building systems.
• Strong reading of codes (IBC/IRC), accessibility, zoning, life-safety.
• Experience translating architectural logic into algorithmic checks and AI-enabled workflows.
• Proficiency with design tools and code-based automation in real projects.
• Ability to ship features end-to-end and manage client relationships in a startup setting.
• Experience communicating with architects and contractors across project phases.

Responsibilities

• Encode architectural objects, plan logic, and code requirements into AI-ready patterns.
• Prototype and deploy QA/QC checks and agent workflows end-to-end in our codebase.
• Stand up client environments and tailor check suites for enterprise architecture practices.
• Generalize firm-specific logic into platform-wide checks benefiting all customers.
• Lead technical discovery and demos with top-tier firms, presenting to principals.

Skills

Architectural design

AI integration

Code literacy

Git

Cursor and Claude Code

Education

Architecture degree

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Git

Revit

IFC coordination

Job description

As a Architectural Design Engineer (Founding Team) at Structured, you sit at the intersection of architectural practice and frontier AI.

This is a product-first, customer-facing role. You aren't just applying architectural judgment (by that we mean building architects!), you are productizing it and deploying it directly into the world's leading architecture firms. If you trained as an architect, have lived the practice, and you're excited by AI and what it can do for how buildings get designed and reviewed, this is the seat.

Working directly with our CTO and CPO, you will translate the logic of floor plans, building envelopes, and regulatory codes (both public regulations like IBC, local amendments, and accessibility, and client-custom standards) into autonomous AI agents. You'll ship those agents to clients yourself, own the relationship through the entire customer-success pipeline, and feed everything you learn back into the product. You write the logic, you deploy the feature, you sit across from the architect. We're early-stage and signing contracts, so your work goes live in front of real firms, fast.

Your core responsibilities

• Encode Expertise: Translate architectural objects, plan logic, and code requirements (public regulations plus firm-specific standards) into structured patterns and agent logic our AI can execute.
• Build & Ship: Prototype and deploy QA/QC checks and agent workflows end-to-end in our codebase (we work in Cursor and Claude Code, git, daily ships). You're hands-on-keyboard. You build the check, you push it to production.
• Stand Up Client Environments: Deploy dedicated environments and tailored check suites into enterprise architecture practices, then watch them run against real drawing sets.
• Generalize: Take what you build for one firm and turn the best of it into public, platform-wide checks every customer benefits from.
• Customer Front-Lines: Run technical discovery and demos with top-tier firms, map their internal standards and pain points, present directly to principals and project architects, and run champion check-ins through the life of the contract.

What success looks like

In your first months you'll have shipped dozens of working checks, stood up live environments for multiple client firms, and turned client-specific logic into platform features, all while owning those accounts from discovery call to deployed, used product.

Who you are

• Trained Architect: You studied architecture and have 4+ years in practice. You can look at a floor plan and understand why a requirement exists, not just that it does.
• Code Literate: You have a working understanding of how building-code systems are structured: model codes (IBC/IRC), how local jurisdictions adopt and amend them, accessibility (ADA), zoning and life-safety logic, and how custom client standards layer on top. You don't need every clause memorized. You need to know how to read a code, find what governs, and reason about why.
• Knows the Process: You've lived the architectural workflow end-to-end: schematic design through CDs, the redline/QA-QC cycle, drawing sets and sheet conventions, RFIs and submittals, ASIs and addenda, consultant coordination, and the handoffs between architect, engineer, and contractor. You understand where errors creep in and what a reviewer is actually looking for.
• AI Native: You already live in AI tools. You reach for them by default, you have a feel for what models can and can't do, and you're energized by where the technology is heading.
• Builder Mindset: You can code. You can ship a feature, use git, and reason about agent logic. You cannot come in not knowing how to build. We'll level you up fast, but the foundation has to be there. You're naturally inclined to automate your own workflow.
• Owner: You take tasks independently and assign them when needed. You thrive without hand-holding in an early-stage environment.
• Practitioner-Communicator: You're part of the architecture community, speak the lingo, and engage credibly with firms from first call to deployed feature.

Nice to haves

• Licensed (RA), a plus, not required.
• Experience with Revit / BIM / IFC coordination.
• Early-stage startup experience.
• An existing network in the architecture community.

Visa: US-based required. US citizen/visa only.

Compensation (full-time): $90K to $140K Consulting option: Competitive hourly or project-based rate