Software Engineer - Geometry & CAD Tooling

Cedar; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity ownership

Healthcare, dental, and vision

Early-stage ownership and impact

Job summary

A leading technology firm in San Diego seeks a Software Engineer for Design Automation. You’ll create Revit plugins to integrate AI-powered tools into architects' workflows, enhancing both user experience and design efficiency. Ideal candidates have over three years of software engineering experience, including Python and plugin development. This position offers competitive salary and equity ownership with benefits like healthcare and dental coverage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Python and pyRevit for Revit plugin development.
• Comfort working with APIs, services, and integrating backend systems into frontend tools.
• Familiarity with AEC workflows and design automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Revit plugins that integrate Cedar’s AI into architectural workflows.
• Design intuitive UX for architects inside Revit.
• Work closely with architects to understand design and documentation workflows.
• Own reliability and usability of design automation tools.

Skills

Python

Revit plugin development

API integration

Data-driven design systems

Design automation

Tools

pyRevit

BIM tools

Job description

Help reinvent how housing gets designed, permitted, and built in America.

Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery. We combine architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to dramatically accelerate how projects move from land acquisition to approved designs and construction. The result: faster timelines, higher quality, lower risk, and more housing in the cities that need it most.

Our team blends architects, engineers, and product builders. We design real buildings — and we build the software systems that make great architecture scalable.

The Role

Software Engineer — Design Automation

Cedar is looking for a Software Engineer to build the tools that architects use every day. This role sits at the intersection of design workflows and Cedar’s AI platform, with ownership over how our automation shows up inside Revit and other BIM environments.

You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining Revit plugins that surface Cedar’s AI-powered feasibility, zoning intelligence, and design systems directly in the tools architects already use. This is a highly applied role: you’ll work closely with architects, computational designers, and product engineers to turn real workflow pain into fast, reliable software.

If you’re excited about making advanced automation feel native inside design tools — and about shipping software that changes how buildings actually get made — this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain Revit plugins that integrate Cedar’s AI and data systems into daily architectural workflows
• Design clean, intuitive UX for architects inside Revit (commands, panels, workflows, feedback loops)
• Work closely with architects and computational designers to deeply understand real design and documentation workflows
• Partner with Cedar’s platform engineers to integrate APIs, models, and services into production tools
• Own the reliability, performance, and usability of design automation tools used on real projects
• Rapidly prototype workflow improvements and productionize the best ones
• Help define Cedar’s long-term approach to design automation inside BIM tools

Who You Are

• You care about craft — both in software and in the user experience of real practitioners
• You enjoy working across disciplines and translating messy real-world workflows into clean systems
• You’re motivated by tools that create leverage for people, not just abstract infrastructure
• You’re comfortable owning features end-to-end, from UX to architecture to deployment
• You like shipping, learning from real usage, and iterating fast

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience with Python and pyRevit for Revit plugin development
• Comfort working with APIs, services, and integrating backend systems into frontend tools
• Familiarity with AEC workflows, BIM, parametric/computational design, or design automation
• Experience working with AI-powered tools, geometry processing, or data-driven design systems

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity ownership
• Healthcare, dental, and vision
• Early-stage ownership and impact