Founding Architect: AI-Driven Building Design & Automation

Aran Industries; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Founding-team equity

Job summary

Aran Industries is seeking a design-led architect/engineer to own architectural packages for live data center and industrial projects while building a parametric engine that generates repeatable designs for future sites. You will work alongside existing architectural and structural automation efforts, connecting building design with integrated engineering systems.

You don't need a software background—you need to understand buildings, think in systems, and use AI to turn your design knowledge

Qualifications

• Understand how buildings work - space planning, circulation, building envelopes, constructability, and the interfaces between architecture and engineering.
• Have taken designs beyond a concept: through detailed modeling, construction documentation, fabrication, or construction. Show us what you personally contributed.
• Think parametrically. Understand which design decisions can become repeatable rules, which depend on project-specific constraints, and which require human judgment.
• Be able to ship working tools with AI coding agents today, even without a traditional software background.
• Take responsibility for design quality. Research and apply relevant requirements, verify automated outputs, and resolve coordination issues rather than passing them downstream.

Responsibilities

• Deliver architectural packages for live projects: space planning, floor plans, elevations, sections, envelope assemblies, architectural details, schedules, and coordinated construction documentation.
• Build a parametric architectural design engine that turns project requirements, equipment layouts, site constraints, and building-system requirements into coordinated models and drawings.
• Automate the repetitive work: layout iterations, room and door schedules, drawing production, and checks for equipment clearances, circulation, accessibility, and egress - with clear review points for decisions that require professional judgment.
• Connect architecture with civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical design. When equipment, capacity, or structural grids change, the building layout and documentation should update with them - not require days of manual redrawing.
• Use AI coding agents to ship these workflows. Turn decisions made on one project into reusable rules, components, and tools for the next.

Skills

Space planning

Envelope design

Building systems interfaces

Parametric design

AI tooling

Coordination with engineering

Tools

BIM

Computational design

Digital fabrication

Job description

Aran Industries is seeking a design-led architect/engineer to own architectural packages for live data center and industrial projects while building a parametric engine that generates repeatable designs for future sites. You will work alongside existing architectural and structural automation efforts, connecting building design with integrated engineering systems.

You don't need a software background—you need to understand buildings, think in systems, and use AI to turn your design knowledge