Architectural Designer: Create Sustainable, Transformative Spaces

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness

401K matching

Flexible schedules

Paid family leave

Paid vacation

Backup child and elder care

Employee assistance program

Professional development

Job summary

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) invites an Architect with 2+ years to join a global practice delivering transformative projects. You will contribute to distinct portions of a project under leadership, develop diagrams, models, drawings, renderings and documents, and communicate clearly within the team.

The role emphasizes strong design concept skills, material knowledge, and coordination across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Completion of a professional degree in Architecture or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Professional licensure process is in progress; LEED accreditation preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, parametric and rendering software, and Adobe Suite.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of distinct portions of a project with regular supervision by Project Leadership.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at a task-specific level.
• Produces and coordinates presentation and contract deliverables such as diagrams, 3D models, drawings, renderings, physical models and animations.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability.
• Integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of a portion of a project.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Demonstrates an intermediate understanding of building materials, systems, specifications, codes, details and construction techniques.
• Is able to enrich design concepts through technical strategies.
• Effectively uses appropriate tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from Project Leadership.
• Shares knowledge with less experienced staff.

Skills

Revit

AutoCAD

Rhino/Grasshopper

Parametric/Rendering software

Adobe Suite

Google Workspace

Education

Professional degree in Architecture

Tools

Rhino

AutoCAD

Grasshopper

3D Rendering

Google Workspace

Job description

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) invites an Architect with 2+ years to join a global practice delivering transformative projects. You will contribute to distinct portions of a project under leadership, develop diagrams, models, drawings, renderings and documents, and communicate clearly within the team.

The role emphasizes strong design concept skills, material knowledge, and coordination across disciplines.