Architect, CAD​/ AutoCAD​/ Mechanical Design

About Uplift

Uplift builds forklift‑deployable, off‑grid, solar‑powered microhomes, fully assembled in our Austin factory and shipped anywhere. Founded by former SpaceX and Tesla engineers, we apply advanced engineering and product thinking to transitional and disaster‑relief housing. Our goal is to perfect one repeatable home and mass‑manufacture it like a car, not design one‑offs.

• Austin, TX (On‑site)
• Full‑time

We’re hiring an architect who thinks like a product designer: someone who wants to obsess over a single, beautiful, livable home and refine it until it’s ready to build by the thousands. You’ll design within real manufacturing and shipping constraints (7’6″ width, forklift deployment, fully off‑grid systems), and own the home from concept through construction documents. That means designing interiors and layouts that feel genuinely livable at a small footprint, producing stamped plans for permitting and city/state review, owning code compliance (IRC, IECC, local AHJs), building renders and 3D models to iterate quickly, coordinating with structural, mechanical, electrical, and software‑integrated systems for off‑grid functionality, and working hands‑on with engineers, fabricators, and field teams to prototype, test, and refine.

• Professional degree in architecture
• Strong sense for livable, well‑designed space, especially at a small footprint
• Fluency in CAD/BIM and rendering (Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, or similar)
• Hands‑on collaborator comfortable in a fast‑moving, cross‑disciplinary environment

• Licensure, or the ability to partner to stamp plans, ideally across multiple states
• A network of architects that can be called upon as needed
• Experience with prefab, modular, DfMA, or off‑grid/sustainable housing