Sustainability Design Lead - Building Performance

The Architect’s Newspaper, LLC; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Job summary

KieranTimberlake is seeking a Building Performance Specialist to join our Philadelphia studio. You will advance sustainable, high-performing building design and guide teams toward measurable environmental outcomes.

You will lead energy, daylight, and comfort modeling, while shaping design decisions and translating analysis into actionable design direction in collaboration with Design Computation researchers.

Qualifications

• Degree in architecture, engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in building performance analysis and sustainable design.
• Expertise in energy, daylight, thermal comfort, and embodied carbon modelling.
• Experience guiding projects through performance and certification frameworks.
• Experience collaborating with architectural design teams.

Responsibilities

• Advance office-wide performance literacy and sustainable design ambition.
• Advise project teams on performance strategies across all project phases.
• Collaborate with architects so performance thinking shapes design from the start.
• Advocate to clients for ambitious, evidence-based sustainability goals.
• Guide consultants toward integrated, high-performing designs.
• Execute energy, carbon, daylight, and comfort modelling for early design.
• Translate analysis into visual feedback for iterative design.
• Steward performance targets, benchmarking, and reporting across projects.
• Co-develop automated analysis workflows with Design Computation peers.
• Evaluate emerging simulation tools, certification frameworks, and regulations.
• Lead office-wide sustainability initiatives with Research Group colleagues.
• Engage in interdisciplinary brainstorming on building performance and related topics.

Skills

Building performance analysis

Sustainable design

Energy & daylight modeling

Thermal comfort modelling

Communication & collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or related field

Tools

EnergyPlus/OpenStudio scripting

Job description

KieranTimberlake is seeking a Building Performance Specialist to join our Philadelphia studio. You will advance sustainable, high-performing building design and guide teams toward measurable environmental outcomes.

You will lead energy, daylight, and comfort modeling, while shaping design decisions and translating analysis into actionable design direction in collaboration with Design Computation researchers.