Senior Design Technologist

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a working-level subject-matter expert on industry-standard digital design platforms and workflows (Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, and comparable tools), providing that context to Software as input for feature and product decisions.
• Own execution and day-to-day evolution of the digital design integrations, families, plugins, scripts, or platform-specific data structures, that surface ICON's building products inside design platforms, within the architecture set by ICON's Product Roadmap; escalate recommendations for architectural changes as they arise.
• Build and maintain LLM-driven or agentic tooling within design tools (e.g., BIM plugins, internal design-automation scripts, proof-of-concept prototypes), scoped to ICON's internal design environment; tools that mature into customer-facing product features hand off to Software.
• Define and maintain design rulesets and BIM input parameters that Software builds against; resolve edge cases escalated from contributors.
• Establish and maintain QA and validation protocols for released design integrations, including versioned releases and regression coverage.
• Review building product requirements from domain technical leads (Structures, Enclosure & Building Science, and other Product Development domains) and identify resulting revisions or additions needed to design integrations and tooling to support those products; resolving gaps in documentation prior to handoff to Software for implementation.
• Partner with the Software team on features requiring deep BIM and computational-geometry input, contributing technical specifications and implementation-level review; flag cross-functional roadmap tradeoffs to the domain's Technical Lead and Product Owners as they arise.
• Work directly with ICON's product team to identify hardware technology requirements that need to be surfaced within the design space through design integrations and their underlying data.
• Coordinate testing of the Software team's implementation of building products with the relevant domain technical leads.
• Proactively engage in technical discovery with internal and customer-facing teams, translating observed friction in the BIM-to-fabrication workflow into candidate product requirements for the domain's Technical Lead and Product Owners to prioritize.
• Author and maintain technical reference documentation and usage standards for the domain's design integrations and tooling.
• Identify and propose new tool or process integrations, including physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical bridging opportunities, bringing recommendations to department leadership for prioritization.
• Provide regular progress and status updates on design integrations, tooling, and ruleset work to department and product leadership.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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 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.
• Advanced proficiency in Revit and complementary BIM/CAD authoring tools, with a demonstrated track record of shipping design integrations (families, plugins, or scripts) into production use.
• Demonstrated software delivery experience, including shipping internal tools or platform features against a release cadence.
• Strong understanding of construction and design industry practices, including structural systems, architectural design, and construction sequencing.
• Proven ability to translate architectural and building-science requirements into technical specifications for software collaboration.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Depth in computational geometry and BIM interoperability — NURBS, BREP, IFC schema authoring, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience productizing construction elements and translating bespoke design intent into reproducible, validated platform components.
• Background in 3D printing, robotics, or advanced manufacturing technologies applied to construction.
• Exposure to physical-to-digital data pipelines (e.g., LiDAR-to-model workflows, computer vision) as a plus signal for the domain's physical-digital bridging work.
• Cloud-native automation or platform architecture literacy (e.g., APS/AWS-style pipelines).
• Exposure to AI-augmented engineering tooling (agentic coding assistants, MCP-based integrations) evaluated within a specific design workflow, rather than as a company-wide strategy mandate.