Computational Designer

Cedar • Austin, TX

3d

About The Position

Reinvent how housing gets designed, permitted, and built in America.
Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery. We combine architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to dramatically accelerate how projects move from land acquisition to approved designs and construction. The result: faster timelines, higher quality, lower risk, and more housing in the cities that need it most.
Our team blends architects, engineers, and product builders. We design real buildings — and we build the software systems that make great architecture scalable.
The Role
This role sits within Cedar’s architecture team and partners closely with product and engineering to scale how feasibility work is done. You’ll work hands-on with project designers to produce early-stage 3D design studies, while also helping define the workflows, tools, and feedback loops that turn feasibility into a repeatable, high-quality system.
This is a hybrid design + systems role: part practitioner, part process-builder. You’ll help translate real project needs into better internal tooling and workflows that improve speed, quality, and consistency across Cedar’s feasibility work.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in computational or parametric design within an architecture or design practice.
• Strong proficiency with tools like Rhino + Grasshopper (or similar parametric design environments).
• Comfortable working on ambiguous, early-stage problems where process is still being defined.

Nice To Haves

• Experience translating design intent into repeatable workflows or toolchains is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with project designers during feasibility to generate 3D design studies and early massing options for real development sites.
• Help define and standardize feasibility workflows so outcomes are repeatable, accurate, and scalable across projects and markets.
• Evaluate how feasibility work is produced today, identify bottlenecks and quality gaps, and propose improvements to process and tooling.
• Bridge between the architecture team and Cedar’s software engineers by providing structured feedback on tools, workflows, and data needs.
• Contribute to the evolution of Cedar’s internal design systems as they expand into later phases of design and delivery.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity ownership
• Healthcare, dental, and vision
• Early-stage ownership and the opportunity to shape how design is scaled inside Cedar

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed