BIM Automation Engineer – Design-to-Fab Innovator

Reframe Systems; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Reframe Systems is seeking a Design Automation Engineer to accelerate architectural design and BIM tooling. You will extend Revit automation, turning repetitive design tasks into production‑grade software that feeds the CAD‑to‑fab chain.

The role blends BIM expertise with software development, requiring collaboration across design, architecture, and software teams to ship real tools used daily.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in design/CAD/BIM automation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross‑functionally and build consensus around a technical vision.
• Strong general coding experience, ideally in Python and/or TypeScript. Experience with automated testing and releases/deployments.
• Used Revit in a professional setting and have built integrations with Revit yourself (such as Revit plugins, Dynamo, pyRevit, or APS).
• Built API integrations with other systems (any protocol, just that you’ve interfaced with real‑world external systems).
• Foundational knowledge of parametric design.
• Experience using coding agents; builds prototypes, collaborates, and gets to a solution rapidly. A 0‑to‑1 builder.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production tools for the design team that are stable, save real time, and work well with our downstream design automation systems.
• Collaborate with highly interdisciplinary teams to design and implement software automation that drives efficiency and throughput on the architecture and business development teams.
• Build the exchange layer between our internal model and external MEP consultants so they don’t bottleneck the process or lock us into their stack.
• Build auto‑takeoff from BIM to produce high‑confidence estimates during design.
• Build tooling that helps architects iterate through value‑engineering options quickly.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build and support reliable, effective tools.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Revit

Dynamo

pyRevit

APIs

Parametric design

CAD automation

API integrations

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering

Tools

Autodesk Platform Services

Autodesk Build

Job description

Reframe Systems is seeking a Design Automation Engineer to accelerate architectural design and BIM tooling. You will extend Revit automation, turning repetitive design tasks into production‑grade software that feeds the CAD‑to‑fab chain.

The role blends BIM expertise with software development, requiring collaboration across design, architecture, and software teams to ship real tools used daily.