Technical Designer

Job Description

Your Role

As a Technical Designer with computational design capability, you will be a key member in the Borderless Studio advancing parametric design and computational analysis on a multitude of urban projects at various scales. You will be an integral part of the Design team, promoting, implementing, and elevating our BIM and digital modelling workflows and protocols in the studio. This unique position combines a direct involvement in prestigious projects in the region with a more strategic role where you will help advance the computational and parametric capabilities, tools and workflows of the Borderless Studio.

What You Will Do

- Participate in all project phases, including programming, conceptual designs, presentations, schematic design, design development, construction documents and production.

- Collaborate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, and other vendors to meet overall project objectives.

- Produce graphic presentations, 3D renderings, plans, elevations, details, and sections through to detailed construction drawings.

- Utilize hand rendering techniques to communicate design concepts.

- Support project sustainability targets throughout project phases and actively engage in delivering them.

- Study sustainable design strategies in every project stage and investigate solutions to sustainable design challenges.

- Work collaboratively with the team to optimize sustainability performance through design iterations and research.

- Engage in climate focused analysis and studies for each project.

- Lead the implementation, management and execution of parametric and computational workflows on projects through various phases of the design process.

- Manage parametric and computational design workflows and solutions for project-specific and studio needs.

- Integrate Design Technology workflows, tools, and applied practices with project teams

- Model Management and additional analytics on design practices

Your Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in architecture or equivalent.

- 6+years of related project experience.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Outstanding graphic presentation and written & verbal communication skills.

- Creative, original thinking and technically biased, demonstrated through a strong creative and technical portfolio.

- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines efficiently.

- Proficiency in modeling using 2D/3D software, such as Revit, Octane, 3dViz, 3ds MAX, and/or Rhino utilizing V-Ray.

- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).

- Knowledge in sustainable design principles required.

- LEED, WELL, Fitwel, LFA or other rating systems accreditation preferable.

- Demonstrate a collaborative and integrated approach towards achieving high sustainability project goals.

- Motivated to grow knowledge and experience in sustainability on a personal and a team level.

Your Design Technology Qualifications

- Good working knowledge and experience in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, data extracts and project delivery.

- Good knowledge and experience with the strategic planning, and setup of BIM projects.

- Good knowledge and experience with collaboration within the BIM context, including cloud-based markups, consultant coordination and clash detection.

- Deep knowledge of computational geometry (topology optimization, medial axis, point clouds, rationalization, panelization, Delaunay meshes, etc)

- Deep knowledge of and proven practical experience in Computational Design applications such as Grasshopper, Dynamo etc.

- Experience/ability to build and deploy Grasshopper/Dynamo scripts & plugins

- Good knowledge of RhinoCommon, RhinoCompute, Grasshopper SDKs, and Revit API.

- Deep understanding of software interoperability routines.

- Basic understanding and familiarity with real-time rendering processes, and material creation & management within the context of integrated BIM and parametric workflows.

- Understanding of the capabilities and application of Information Management tools such as Aconex, Asite, Newforma, etc.

- Design Authoring - Revit, Rhino, Autocad, Navisworks

- Collaboration - BIM360

- Computational Design - Grasshopper, Dynamo

- Building Performance Simulation - Insight, Sefaira, Diva, Ladybug tools

- Visualisation - Vray, Enscape, Twinmotion, 3DSMax

- Graphics & Productivity - Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite

- Experiential - Unreal Engine, Unity

- Development - C#, Python

To be considered, please submit portfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.

Life at Gensler

As a people-first organization, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From internal design competitions to research grants to Well-being Week, our offices reflect our people's diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability and wellness programs. We also offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm's commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

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