Forward Deployed Architect (Founding Team)

As a Forward Deployed Architect (Founding Team) at Structured, you sit at the intersection of architectural practice and frontier AI.

This is a product-first, customer-facing role. You aren't just applying architectural judgment, you are productizing it and deploying it directly into the world's leading architecture firms. If you trained as an architect, have lived the practice, and you're excited by AI and what it can do for how buildings get designed and reviewed, this is the seat.

Working directly with our CTO and CPO, you will translate the logic of floor plans, building envelopes, and regulatory codes (both public regulations like IBC, local amendments, and accessibility, and client-custom standards) into autonomous AI agents. You'll ship those agents to clients yourself, own the relationship through the entire customer-success pipeline, and feed everything you learn back into the product. You write the logic, you deploy the feature, you sit across from the architect. We're early-stage and signing contracts, so your work goes live in front of real firms, fast.

Your core responsibilities

Encode Expertise: Translate architectural objects, plan logic, and code requirements (public regulations plus firm-specific standards) into structured patterns and agent logic our AI can execute.
Build & Ship: Prototype and deploy QA/QC checks and agent workflows end-to-end in our codebase (we work in Cursor and Claude Code, git, daily ships). You're hands-on-keyboard. You build the check, you push it to production.
Stand Up Client Environments: Deploy dedicated environments and tailored check suites into enterprise architecture practices, then watch them run against real drawing sets.
Generalize: Take what you build for one firm and turn the best of it into public, platform-wide checks every customer benefits from.
Customer Front-Lines: Run technical discovery and demos with top-tier firms, map their internal standards and pain points, present directly to principals and project architects, and run champion check-ins through the life of the contract.

What success looks like

In your first months you'll have shipped dozens of working checks, stood up live environments for multiple client firms, and turned client-specific logic into platform features, all while owning those accounts from discovery call to deployed, used product.

Who you are

Trained Architect: You studied architecture and have 4+ years in practice. You can look at a floor plan and understand why a requirement exists, not just that it does.
Code Literate: You have a working understanding of how building-code systems are structured: model codes (IBC/IRC), how local jurisdictions adopt and amend them, accessibility (ADA), zoning and life-safety logic, and how custom client standards layer on top. You don't need every clause memorized. You need to know how to read a code, find what governs, and reason about why.
Knows the Process: You've lived the architectural workflow end-to-end: schematic design through CDs, the redline/QA-QC cycle, drawing sets and sheet conventions, RFIs and submittals, ASIs and addenda, consultant coordination, and the handoffs between architect, engineer, and contractor. You understand where errors creep in and what a reviewer is actually looking for.
AI Native: You already live in AI tools. You reach for them by default, you have a feel for what models can and can't do, and you're energized by where the technology is heading.
Builder Mindset: You can code. You can ship a feature, use git, and reason about agent logic. You cannot come in not knowing how to build. We'll level you up fast, but the foundation has to be there. You're naturally inclined to automate your own workflow.
Owner: You take tasks independently and assign them when needed. You thrive without hand-holding in an early-stage environment.
Practitioner-Communicator: You're part of the architecture community, speak the lingo, and engage credibly with firms from first call to deployed feature.

Nice to haves

Licensed (RA), a plus, not required.
Experience with Revit / BIM / IFC coordination.
Early-stage startup experience.
An existing network in the architecture community.

Visa: US-based required. US citizen/visa only.
Compensation (full-time): $90K to $140K Consulting option: Competitive hourly or project-based rate