Architectural Designer​/Computational Designer Lead

Overview

Architectural Designer / Computational Designer

Arrowstreet is an award-winning architecture, interiors, and experiential design practice with more than 60 years of work shaping complex, forward-looking environments. Based in Boston, we operate across commercial, residential, hospitality, transportation, academic, and large-scale mixed-use sectors. Our work is grounded in design excellence, sustainability, and innovation—focused on creating places that perform, adapt, and endure.

We are seeking a Architectural Designer / Computational Designer with 5+ years of professional experience who is passionate about design authorship, advanced digital workflows, and the intersection of architecture, computation, and emerging technologies. This role is for a designer who sees computation not as a specialty add-on, but as a core design instrument—from concept generation through realization.

This position offers the opportunity to shape high-profile projects, influence firmwide design thinking, and collaborate closely with leadership and multidisciplinary teams.

As an Architectural Designer / Computational Designer, you will contribute to projects across multiple scales and typologies, with a focus on conceptual design, parametric exploration, and design development. You will play an active role in:

• Leading and contributing to early-stage design concepts
• Advancing designs from concept through schematic design and beyond
• Helping elevate Arrowstreet’s internal design culture through experimentation, research, and collaboration

• Develop and lead design and computational workflows using parametric and algorithmic tools
• Produce high-quality conceptual diagrams, visual narratives, and design studies
• Create and refine parametric models to explore geometry, systems, performance, and variation
• Collaborate with project teams across architecture, interiors, and experiential design
• Integrate feedback iteratively while maintaining strong design vision
• Contribute to Arrowstreet’s broader design excellence, innovation, and sustainability initiatives

• Rhino + Grasshopper (advanced) with performance-driven workflows
• Strong visualization and graphic communication
• Understanding of videos as a design communication medium
• Experience translating complex computational ideas into clear architectural outcomes
• Understanding of emerging technologies, AI-assisted workflows, sustainability, and future-oriented design methodologies
• Commitment to in-office collaboration as part of a design-driven studio culture

• Stable Diffusion / SDXL / Control Net
• Python or scripting
• Unreal Engine or real-time engines
• Performance-driven design tools

• Work across a diverse, real-world portfolio while maintaining a strong design culture
• Opportunity to shape early design thinking and influence firmwide approaches to computation and innovation
• Collaborative studio environment with direct access to senior leadership
• Platform to grow as a designer, technologist, and architectural thinker
• A firm culture that values curiosity, rigor, and designing for what’s next

Complete our online application at Arrowstreet Careers and submit your resume and portfolio (