Industrial Architecture Lead

American Advanced Materials; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive medical, vision, dental

Flexible PTO

Job summary

American Advanced Materials seeks an industrial architect to own the facility architecture for titanium and zirconium production facilities. You will translate process and operations requirements into building layouts, lead design reviews, and ensure buildability, safety, and code compliance.

You will collaborate with EPC partners, drive maintainable and flexible designs, and support permitting and commissioning as the architectural owner on a first-of-its-kind materials production program.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of architecture experience in industrial environments.
• Proven ability to manage capital projects with fast turnarounds.
• Experience leading or reviewing architectural scope from FEED to startup.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural scope for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale facilities.
• Translate process requirements into building layouts and facility programs.
• Define architectural basis of design, room data sheets, circulation concepts, and occupancy assumptions.
• Serve as technical owner for architectural interfaces with EPC firms and authorities.
• Review deliverables for quality, code compliance, constructability, and long-term flexibility.
• Drive design decisions for cleanliness, ventilation, and hazardous-material handling.
• Support permitting, fire protection strategy, occupancy analyses, and inspections.
• Lead constructability and value-engineering reviews to reduce complexity and maintain safety.
• Support construction, commissioning, turnover, and early operations as architectural owner.
• Build internal facility architecture standards and execution playbooks.

Skills

Leadership

Code compliance

Facility coordination

Constructability review

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Architectural Engineering / Civil Engineering

Tools

Revit

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on highly skilled industrial architect to own the facility architecture and building design requirements for our titanium and zirconium production facilities. This is a critical technical leadership role where you'll translate process, operations, safety, logistics, and maintenance requirements into practical industrial building designs. You will act as AAM's owner-side architectural lead, working closely with EPC partners responsible for civil and structural execution while making sure the facility is buildable, code-compliant, maintainable, safe, and ready to support first-of-its-kind advanced materials production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural scope for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale materials production facilities

• Translate process and operational requirements into building layouts and facility requirements

• Define and review architectural basis of design, building programs, room data sheets, adjacency plans, circulation concepts, envelope requirements, life-safety concepts, egress strategies, and occupancy assumptions

• Serve as AAM's technical owner for architectural interfaces with EPC firms, specialty consultants and authorities having jurisdiction

• Review EPC and architect-engineer deliverables for technical quality, code compliance, constructability, maintainability, operational fit, and long-term flexibility

• Drive facility design decisions for industrial buildings with demanding cleanliness, ventilation, corrosion resistance, hazardous-material handling, fire/life-safety, and process-containment requirements

• Support permitting, code analysis, fire protection strategy, hazardous occupancy analysis, accessibility, environmental interfaces, and authority-having-jurisdiction reviews

• Lead constructability, operability, maintainability, and value-engineering reviews that reduce facility complexity without compromising safety or plant performance

• Support construction, commissioning, punch-list resolution, turnover, and early operations as the architectural owner's representative

• Build AAM's internal facility architecture standards, design review practices, drawing expectations, preferred partners, and execution playbooks

Qualifications

• 8+ years of architecture, industrial architecture, architectural engineering, or facility design experience in chemical plants, semiconductors, mining, metals, energy production or other highly demanding industrial environments

• Proven success working in large capital projects with extremely fast turnarounds

• Proven success leading or reviewing architectural scope from front-end engineering through detailed design, construction, commissioning, or facility startup

• Bachelor's or higher-level degree in Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field

• Strong understanding of building layouts, life safety, egress, fire separations, building envelopes, equipment access, material/personnel flows, HVAC interfaces, maintenance access, clean/dirty area separation, and operational support spaces

• Experience reviewing architectural drawings, building plans, specifications, room data sheets, code studies, submittals, RFIs, field changes, and construction packages

• Familiarity with IBC, IFC, NFPA, OSHA, accessibility requirements, hazardous occupancy concepts, industrial ventilation interfaces, and local permitting processes

• Strong practical judgment about constructability, building systems, material durability, corrosion resistance, coatings, maintainability, field sequencing, and commissioning risk

• Very high proficiency in Revit or similar BIM systems

• Working experience with Solidworks, AutoCAD or other CAD systems is a plus

• Registered Architect, P.E., NCARB certification, or experience as an owner's architectural representative on a major capital project is a strong plus

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $185K - $260K

Significant equity compensation aligned with public benchmarks for senior early team members

Your actual compensation will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: location, job-related knowledge and skills, education, and demonstrated prior scope and experience.

We offer comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, company 401(k) and other benefits. We have a flexible paid time-off (PTO) policy