Reframe
Climate-friendly housing
DesignAutomationEngineer,Architecture
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“Design Automation Engineer, Architecture at Reframe. Skills: Revit automation, web engineering, BIM, AI. Build upstream half of P2P. Develop tools for architects”
What You'll Achieve.
Cut design-to-manufacturing time 30%; Collapse pre-contract cycle from 8–12 weeks to single workday; Make architect-plus-developer loop 10x faster; Revit/consultant exchange layer robust; External partners don't bottleneck process; External partners don't dictate tooling; Architect-side automation cuts iterations days to hours; Ship production AI feature in architect-developer loop
Industry & Context.
Value-engineering iterations; Costing iterations; Exchange layer issues; Bottlenecking consultants; Locking into consultant stack; Design-to-manufacturing time reduction; Pre-contract cycle reduction
Based on-site in Andover, MA
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years shipping production software in a team codebase, CI/CD, code review, architectural instincts for building iterable, maintainable systems, Real depth in how a building comes together, depth in how architects create and manage a project, Architectural training, substantial experience working inside architectural workflows, Working knowledge of a parametric or BIM design stack, Exercises good AI judgment, critical, informed point of view on where and when to use LLM APIs and AI-assisted development
Nice to Have
Revit API, Autodesk Platform Services, plug-in development, CAD automation at a manufacturing or industrialized construction company, Experience building AI-powered product features, generative models, LLMs inside a production pipeline
What You'll Do.
Build upstream half of P2P
Develop tools for architects
Manage handoffs with consultants
Turn architect-developer workflow into software
Cut value-engineering iterations
Fix exchange layer with consultants
Ship features for architect-developer loop
Generate compliant design options
Recalculate pro-forma
Check zoning compliance
Check code compliance
Develop predictive AHJ model
Tune permit submission
File permit submission
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work inside Reframe's architecture engineering stream; Work alongside architects and engineers; Code a teammate can extend; Work with product team
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Reframe designs and manufactures climate-resilient homes in distributed microfactories. Our Pixels-to-Parts (P2P) pipeline turns a site, local code, and a developer's requirements into a priced design, a permit set, and the machine files that build the actual house. We've already cut design-to-manufacturing time 30% in our first year. Next we plan to collapse the pre-contract cycle from 8–12 weeks to a single workday. Housing is the biggest line item in most people's lives and the largest climate lever we can pull. Reframe is the software bet on fixing both. We are targeting climate-friendly housing, manufactured locally, priced to compete with code-minimum stick-built. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're looking for a Design Automation Engineer to help build the upstream half of P2P: the tools Reframe architects use with developers, and the handoffs with external consultants. You'd work inside Reframe's architecture engineering stream, alongside our architects and engineers. You're the person who turns the architect-plus-developer workflow into shipped software. Near-term, that's Revit automation: cutting value-engineering and costing iterations from days to hours, and fixing the exchange layer with external structural, MEP, and electrical consultants so they don't bottleneck us or lock us into their stack. What we're building is a web application with a focused bridge to Revit, so web engineering is core to the role. But this isn't a "software fundamentals first, domain second" hire. We've found that people who can write code but don't understand how a building comes together hit a ceiling fast. The strongest candidates blur the line between the two: a BIM or CAD practitioner who became a real engineer, or an engineer with genuine depth in architectural workflows. Reframe's long-term stack is agnostic to any specific BIM tool, though near-term pragmatism means working in Revit. RESPONSIBILITIES Longer-term, it's shipping the features that make the architect-plus
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