Residential Architect

About this role

TLDR; Davis is looking for a residential specialist, excellent in plan and in drawing, who wants to practice the craft differently than in an agency. We expect around three to four years of experience. About Davis Davis is an AI-native real estate company accelerating early-stage development and architectural design. Today developers coordinate 4-5 fragmented stakeholders over weeks or months. Soon they'll need only one: Davis. We turn every input that shapes a development decision into decision-ready outputs: investor-grade feasibility studies, investment analysis, and architect-certified designs, delivered in days. Every stage pairs our proprietary AI systems with expert review, so velocity never comes at the cost of reliability. We closed a $5.5M pre-seed co-led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital , with Yellow, Evantic and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angels from the founding teams of Spacemaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, Cleo and Spore Bio. We already work with leading developers and expect to support hundreds of projects over the coming year , deepening our research, our hiring, and our coverage of the development process end to end. The role This role sits at the meeting point of two worlds Davis is working to bring together: architectural expertise and artificial intelligence. It is not a conventional architect role. It spans three complementary dimensions: guaranteeing the quality and architectural credibility of our deliverables, now generated in hours; co-producing the architectural plans that go with them; and actively contributing to the development of our plan-generation technology. It is an architect role whose impact reaches well beyond your own output. You will run a portfolio of residential projects, under the supervision of a lead architect, from feasibility through to schematic design. The core of the role Read the local planning documents (zoning plans, development-orientation schemes, easements) and derive the project assumptions from them. Develop massing, circulation principles and capacity scenarios consistent with the regulatory framework. Certify the architectural credibility of what the pipeline produces, confirming that each plan is sound and setting out the reasoning behind it. Develop the project phase after phase, from a first capacity scenario through to a resolved project at schematic design. Produce the graphic documents (plans, images, diagrams) that make the project clear and compelling. Arbitrate between scenarios against programmatic, regulatory and economic constraints. Contribute to the technology Formalize best practice, translating what a strong residential plan respects into criteria our AI teams can use. Qualify the model's outputs, defining the standard a strong plan meets and validating each result against it, with the reasoning. Work across the product, tech and real estate teams, inside the tool's continuous-improvement cycles. Work as a team Take part in project reviews and exchange with the other architects to improve the methods and the quality of the deliverables. Contribute to the team's graphic standards. Who We Are Looking For Education: a degree in architecture. Experience: around 3 to 4 years in an agency, ideally one specialized in residential work. You have a real command of the residential floor plan and can, from a site and a brief, produce credible, well-drawn capacity scenarios. Software: mastery of Rhino and Revit is essential, and AutoCAD is expected. Appetite for digital tools and AI: you do not need to code, but the drive to fold these tools into your practice and push it forward is essential. Speed and synthesis: our clients are real estate developers, whose demands are first about speed and efficiency. You need to produce a credible, well-drawn scenario in hours, cut to the essential on ambiguous cases, and know what level of detail serves the decision at each phase. Domain skills Command of the residential floor plan , circulation,

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