Software Engineer, Design Automation

Responsibilities

• Help architect and build the core of our design automation platform: the pipeline that lowers a building design into manufacturing‑ready outputs.
• Turn a messy, ambiguous domain into clean, durable abstractions. Decompose large problems, prove solutions in the real world, and cut scope judiciously.
• Design the pipeline's stages, intermediate representation, and the verification gates that catch problems early.
• Set technical direction for design automation and raise the engineering bar through review, standards, and mentorship.
• Leverage AI to both build this system and utilize it within the system itself.
• Collaborate with highly interdisciplinary teams to build towards a highly automated system while progressively augmenting our existing workflows.

• Bachelor’s in computer science or electrical engineering; or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience building production software.
• Strong software engineering experience, ideally in Go, Python or C#, including automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and alerting, debugging and root cause analysis.
• Experience with cloud‑native architecture, especially data‑centric applications. Experience managing infrastructure and deployments in containerized/cloud services (EC2, Lambda, etc.).
• Demonstrated technical leadership. Have a track record of turning a messy domain into clean abstractions and demonstrated the ability to deliver reliable code at scale under tight timelines.
• Experience using coding agents to build prototypes, get to a solution rapidly, and augment day‑to‑day development.
• Comfortable picking up new programming languages quickly and becoming productive in them.
• Depth in one or more of these domains:
• Geometric engines and CAD: you’ve helped build an integrated CAD system or some of the engine behind a tool like that.
• Design automation in other industries: you’ve worked on systems for automated design in domains other than architecture and mechanical design.
• Game/physics engine: you’ve worked on the nuts and bolts of some pieces of a physics and/or rendering game engine.
• Compilers and program transformation: contributed to a compiler, interpreter, query planner, or high‑level synthesis engine.

Demonstrates expertise in building production software with a focus on design automation, leveraging AI and cloud‑native architecture. Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor teams, and deliver reliable code at scale in complex domains.