Computational Architect — Modular Steel Home Manufacturer — Ground Floor Pipeline Build (Grand Rapids, MI)
We are a modular steel-frame home manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Michigan building a design-to-fabrication pipeline from scratch. We are not a traditional architecture firm. We are a manufacturer that needs architects who think like engineers and build like technologists. But, we are very serious about beautiful single family architecture.
The opportunity:
We are defining our design and customer specification workflow right now — nothing is locked in. The person we hire will have a direct hand in shaping how that process works, what tools we use, and how we train others on it.
What we are building:
Our structural system carries all load on the exterior walls. The interior is completely free. We do not sell floor plans. Instead we are building a constrained configurator where a customer describes what they want, the system generates a valid massing within our manufacturing rules, and that massing automatically becomes a Revit BIM model, bill of materials, and fabrication package — without anyone redrawing anything.
Our target stack: Grasshopper for parametric logic, Monoceros/Wasp for module constraint, Rhino.Inside.Revit for the BIM bridge, Raven for AI-assisted massing from customer images, ShapeDiver for the customer-facing configurator. We have strong full-stack programmers on the team. We need the architectural and computational design intelligence to go with them.
You should bring:
∙ Rhino and Grasshopper fluency — you use these daily, not occasionally
∙ Revit competence — you understand BIM as a manufacturing document, not just a drawing tool
∙ RiR familiarity or genuine desire to build with it
∙ An opinion about how a design-to-fabrication workflow should be structured
∙ The ability to sit with a customer (or our sales team or both) and translate what they want into something buildable. We also want you to be a strong voice with our engineers and developers to build the design tools and procedural work flows that will work best.
What we offer:
A ground-floor role at a company with a factory coming online in May, first client orders in hand, and a clear vision of where we are going. You will not be the tenth person to touch a file. You will be the person who decides how the file gets made.
Open to full-time, contract, or hybrid engagement. Remote considered for the right person. Grand Rapids preferred.
Contact: amin@immersivehomes.com