ICON Build
Senior Design Technologist
Austin, Texas, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of related experience in BIM-driven design, design-to-fabrication workflows, or construction technology platforms; or 6+ years with a Master’s; or 3+ years with a Ph.D.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Building Science, Computer Science, or a related field with a strong technical focus.
About the job
Build and maintain BIM/CAD integrations and design-automation tooling that help translate design intent into ICON-compatible building designs, including LLM-driven or agentic tools within ICON’s internal design environment.
What you'll do
- Develop and evolve design integrations, families, plugins, scripts, rulesets, and BIM data structures; maintain QA, validation, and release processes.
- Build design-environment LLM or agentic tools, and collaborate with Software and product teams on requirements, specifications, testing, and implementation reviews.
- Translate BIM-to-fabrication workflow needs into product requirements; maintain technical documentation and report progress to leadership.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Building Science, Computer Science, or a related field with a strong technical focus.
- 8+ years of related experience; or 6+ years with a Master’s; or 3+ years with a Ph.D.
- Advanced proficiency in Revit and complementary BIM/CAD authoring tools, with a track record of shipping design integrations into production.
- Software delivery experience shipping internal tools or platform features against a release cadence; strong understanding of construction and design practices and ability to translate architectural and building-science requirements into technical specifications.
Nice to have
- Depth in computational geometry and BIM interoperability, such as NURBS, BREP, or IFC schema authoring.
- Experience in construction-related 3D printing, robotics, or advanced manufacturing; physical-to-digital pipelines; cloud-native automation; or AI-augmented engineering tooling.
Tools
Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, NURBS, BREP, IFC, APS/AWS
AI focus
Build LLM-driven or agentic tooling within design tools and ICON’s internal design environment; AI-augmented engineering tooling is also preferred.
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