Architectural Designer 1

STV; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

STV's Washington, DC Architecture practice is seeking an Architectural Designer I with 0-5 years of professional experience to join our growing multidisciplinary design team within the Buildings Group. We welcome emerging architectural professionals with different strengths and career interests.

Some candidates may bring strong design and visualization skills, while others may be more technically oriented toward documentation, building systems, or constructability.

Qualifications

• Strong architectural fundamentals including plans, sections, elevations, spatial relationships, and basic building organization.
• Ability to communicate architectural ideas through drawings, diagrams, models, and graphics.
• Curiosity about how buildings are designed, coordinated, constructed, and operated.
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to develop sound documentation habits.
• Willingness to learn new software, workflows, and project requirements.
• Ability to work across different project types and phases while collaborating with team members.

Responsibilities

• Design and Project Development: Support architectural design, planning, documentation, visualization, and project coordination across different phases of work.
• Architectural Documentation: Assist with floor plans, elevations, sections, schedules, and other drawings under supervision.
• Revit Modeling and Documentation: Develop and maintain Revit models and drawing content per project standards.
• Design Exploration: Contribute to design studies, diagrams, renderings, and presentation materials.
• Multidisciplinary Coordination: Coordinate with structural, MEP, civil, and other disciplines while learning building system interactions.
• Project Coordination: Assist project architects and managers with meeting materials and documentation.
• Design Technology: Explore digital tools and workflows to improve quality and productivity.
• Quality Control: Incorporate markups and ensure model and drawing consistency.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Architecture

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Job description

STV's Washington, DC Architecture practice is seeking an Architectural Designer I with 0-5 years of professional experience to join our growing multidisciplinary design team with our Buildings Group.

We welcome emerging architectural professionals with different strengths and career interests. Some candidates may bring strong design and visualization skills. Others may be more technically oriented and interested in documentation, building systems, or constructability. Others may see their long-term path in project coordination and project management. This position is designed to provide broad exposure to architectural practice while allowing individuals to develop toward their strongest areas over time.

The Architectural Designer I will support transportation, civic, federal, institutional, and other complex public projects across multiple phases of design and delivery. Compared with more experienced architectural roles, extensive experience assembling complete drawing sets is not expected. However, candidates should be comfortable working in Revit, have strong architectural fundamentals, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to contribute wherever the project needs support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and Project Development: Support architectural design, planning, documentation, visualization, and project coordination across different phases of work.
• Architectural Documentation: Assist with the development of floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, enlarged plans, details, schedules, diagrams, and other architectural drawings under the direction of more experienced team members.
• Revit Modeling and Documentation: Develop and maintain Revit models and drawing content in accordance with project standards, including views, sheets, annotations, schedules, families, and model organization.
• Design Exploration: Contribute to design studies, option development, diagrams, renderings, physical or digital models, and presentation materials.
• Technical Learning: Develop an understanding of building assemblies, materials, detailing, constructability, accessibility, life safety, and the relationship between architectural and engineering systems.
• Multidisciplinary Coordination: Participate in coordination with structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, civil, and other disciplines while learning how architectural decisions interact with broader building systems.
• Project Coordination: Assist project architects and project managers with meeting materials, coordination tracking, issue documentation, and other project delivery activities.
• Design Technology: Explore and apply digital tools, workflows, automation, visualization, and emerging technologies that can improve design quality, coordination, productivity, and consistency.
• Quality Control: Incorporate markups accurately, check work for completeness and consistency, and develop disciplined habits around model and drawing quality.
• Team Collaboration: Work across different project types, design phases, and assignments based on project needs, while communicating progress and asking questions when requirements are unclear.
• Professional Development: Build experience across design, technical delivery, coordination, and project management while developing a clearer long-term professional direction.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture from an accredited program.
• 0-5 years of professional architectural experience.
• Strong architectural fundamentals, including an understanding of plans, sections, elevations, spatial relationships, and basic building organization.
• Proficiency in Autodesk Revit, including the ability to:
  • Navigate and work effectively within an established project model.
  • Create and modify architectural elements such as walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, doors, windows, stairs, and basic curtain wall systems.
  • Develop and organize views, sheets, annotations, dimensions, tags, and schedules.
  • Work with levels, grids, linked models, view templates, visibility settings, and basic worksharing workflows.
  • Modify existing families and parameters and create simple project-specific content when needed.
  • Incorporate markups accurately while maintaining model and drawing consistency.
  • Understand the relationship between the Revit model and the resulting architectural documentation.
• Ability to communicate architectural ideas through drawings, diagrams, models, and graphics.
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to develop sound documentation habits.
• Curiosity about how buildings are designed, coordinated, constructed, and operated.
• Ability to learn new software, workflows, project requirements, and technical concepts.
• Willingness to work across different project types, project phases, and assignments rather than specializing too early in one area.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to respond constructively