Architectural Designer

This role is 100% on site, it is not a hybrid or WFH role. We are a collaborative group often gathered around a dry-erase board.

Sabin is a growing company specializing in acoustic and lighting solutions for a range of commercial projects. We design and manufacture our products in our Chicago (Hermosa neighborhood) based factory.

You use your strong computational design skills, spatial design talent and imagination to take existing “lego pieces” and design “lego kits.” You take acoustical and lighting elements and create complete solutions balancing lighting, spatial and acoustic design. Your job is to focus primarily on answering system level questions.

• Design systems comprised of Sabin’s products to offer complete solutions, both in abstract and specific customer projects. These are application designs of our products; this is primarily accomplished in Rhino Grasshopper.
• Design layouts of interior projects, with a focus on spatial, acoustic, and lighting design. Create models, grasshopper scripts, drawings, and other documentation to support your design.
• Advise sales and marketing:
  Build language, rationale, technical support and specification language using your industry experience to support specifiers and make our products easier to design with.
• Collaborate with Product Development in the conception and explanation of new products and systems.
• Develop systematic use cases of our products, compose examples and create documentation for the same, along with scripts to support further customization and application to project specific configuration.
• You will be expected to manage both your own projects as well as those of customers.
• Partner with programmers to create / modify generative design tools and research and develop new automated and semi-automated production workflows.
• R & D efforts on special projects.

• Minimum of 4 years of experience at an architecture firm.
• Expert use of Rhino & Grasshopper as create tools is essential.
• Must have a strong imagination.
• Must be able to sketch. There will be a test.
• Must be able to talk about positive and negative space, line, plane, volumes, mass, etc.
• Must be able to articulate spatial concepts in reasoned frameworks, connecting these spatial and visual concepts to abstract ideas and narratives.
• You have experience designing architectural interiors.
• Architectural license not required, job title driven by candidate and following industry standards.
• Revit and general BIM knowledge

We offer competitive pay and benefits, the space to do great work.

Sabin places the highest priority on cultivating an engaging, rewarding and collaborative workplace. We are building an inclusive and creative environment---this opportunity for creative and professional growth is vital to us.

We have high expectations for ourselves and each other, we work diligently and kindly and listen to one another. We are committed to maintaining a learning environment, where risk taking and failure is possible. We strive to continuously improve within our respective craft.

This is an infrequent kind of opportunity to join a young, vibrant company at the forefront of design in the acoustic and lighting industry. You will have the chance to take ownership of your work and the trust to do so. Your ability to adapt, learn, and grow with us will be key to your success and ours. Our hours are 8:30AM-5:00 PM 5 days a week.

For work/life balance and enviromental reasons we ask that applicants live within 11 miles of our factory, at 4447 W Cortland Ave, Chicago IL 60639, or be willing to locate to within that distance.

To learn more about Sabin and our products, please visit Sabin.

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