Cover
Senior Project Architect
Gardena, Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; high-volume permitting experience required, with a preference for single-family residential.
About the job
Runs a portfolio of custom-home projects from contract through permitting and readiness for installation, owning site integration, client and consultant coordination, and improvements to Cover’s approval and automation systems.
What you'll do
- Coordinate consultants and clients, manage permit-package production and QA, and lead submittals, corrections, and resubmittals across Southern California jurisdictions.
- Own project-specific site design, including siting, grading, drainage, hillside conditions, utilities, and construction administration.
- Build permit-tracking processes, reusable details, playbooks, and tooling with the software team to improve portfolio management and automate approvals.
What they ask for
- Licensed Architect in California.
- 7+ years of experience.
- Experience permitting a high volume of projects; site design and integration experience, including grading, drainage, constrained and hillside lots, consultant coordination, and built construction administration.
- Demonstrated ability to systematize repeated work and communicate timelines, risks, options, and tradeoffs clearly to clients and internal teams.
Nice to have
- Single-family residential permitting experience.
- Design-build delivery, Stormwater / SWPPP / ESCP, MEP coordination, Structural concepts, Scripting or parametric workflows, Modular or offsite construction, Cost estimating, or Off-grid experience.
Tools
AI tools, LADBS, Stormwater / SWPPP / ESCP, MEP, SWPPP, ESCP
AI focus
Use advanced AI tools in day-to-day work and build AI-native workflows; collaborate with the software team to automate permit and approval processes.
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