Timber Frame Designer

Construction is one of the least automated industries in the world. We're on a mission to change that and to make high-quality homes easy and affordable to build.

Our platform, Master Builder, takes a building design and generates executable robot code for every panel. Our robotic Micro Factory deploys directly onto building sites and produces those wall, floor and roof panels on demand - faster with less waste, and at lower cost. No large factory. No trucking. No delays. It moves with builders as their pipeline grows, putting production and cost control back in their hands.

Our technology works. It's deployed with real homebuilding partners across the US and Europe today. Backed by Planet A, PT1, Shadow Ventures, ABB Robotics, we're a small team about to take our biggest step yet towards changing how the world builds homes.

We're searching for people who want to have outsized impact, ship fast and see their work in the real world: real panels, in real homes, for real people. #forpeopleandplanet

Our Design & Delivery team takes our partner’s home designs and, using our software Master Builder, turns them into timber frame designs that can be produced in our Micro Factories. You’ll produce high-quality timber frame BIM models that are validated, sequenced, and ready for manufacture. We've delivered against this process across multiple deployments, and we're scaling it as our partner pipeline grows.

This role adds depth to the team and to the process. The right hire brings industry experience from timber frame design, production engineering, or DfMA - and applies it directly to the panelisation and QA work we already run. You'll use Master Builder to take a partner's design from incoming drawings through to an execution-ready panel pack, catching the details that don't translate cleanly and resolving them before they reach our Micro Factories.

With live deployments and a growing partner pipeline, you'll work alongside our Design & Delivery team lead, building cross-cover and resilience as we scale.

• You've worked in timber frame panel design, production engineering, or DfMA - including panel or module design in a factory-adjacent or offsite/MMC context - and you know the difference between a detail that looks right on a drawing and one that works in the factory and on-site
• You read architectural & structural drawings, models, and bills of material carefully and critically - you notice what's missing, what's ambiguous, and what will cause a problem downstream
• You're comfortable working across different regional contexts - US, UK, EU - and adapting to different codes, conventions, and partner expectations without losing rigour
• You understand building code compliance in a timber frame context - nailing distances, sheathing, structural implications of detailing decisions
• You care about accuracy and you're uncomfortable letting something through that isn't right
• You're a clear communicator within the team - you can flag a problem, explain why it matters, and suggest a path forward

Reviewing designs - Review incoming partner design packages against the Micro Factory production specification. Identify details that fall outside what the system can deliver today, and work with the team and our tools to resolve them before they reach production.

Pre-production preparation - Using our tools and processes, you’ll take incoming designs through to production-ready panel data - generating panel models, delivering drawings and panel schedules, performing QA checks. You'll be trained on Master Builder, our proprietary design-to-production software - prior exposure isn't expected, but strong Revit/BIM fundamentals and a fast learning curve are. You will apply the…