Residential Architect

THE ROLE

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This role sits at the crossroads of two worlds that Davis is precisely seeking to bring together: architectural expertise and artificial intelligence. This is not a conventional architect position. Your role covers three complementary dimensions: guaranteeing the architectural quality and credibility of our deliverables, which are now generated in a matter of hours; co-producing the architectural drawings that accompany them; contributing actively to the development of our plan generation

technology. This is an architect position whose impact extends well beyond your own output.

You will handle a portfolio of residential projects, under the supervision of a lead architect, from feasibility through to schematic design.

The core of the role

• Analyze urban planning documents and derive the project assumptions from them.
• Develop massing options, circulation principles and capacity scenarios consistent with the regulatory framework, at the scale of the building as well as of the site.
• Check and correct the outputs of our tools: verify what holds, fix what does not, explain why.
• Develop the project phase by phase, from a first capacity scenario through to a project worked up to schematic design.
• Produce the graphic documents (plans, images, diagrams) that make the project clear and compelling.
• Arbitrate between several scenarios according to programmatic, regulatory and economic constraints.

Contribute to the technology

• Formalize best practice: translate what a good project respects, typology by typology, into criteria our AI teams can work with.
• Qualify the model outputs: say what is right, what is wrong, and on what grounds.
• Work cross-functionally with the product, tech and real estate teams, within the tool's continuous improvement cycles.

Work as a team

• Take part in project reviews and exchange with the other architects to improve methods and the quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to the team's graphic standards.

PROFILE

Education: degree in architecture.

Experience: around 3 to 4 years in an agency, ideally in an agency specialized in residential. You have a genuine command of residential plan design and know how, from a site and a program, to produce credible and well-drawn capacity scenarios.

Software: proficiency in Rhino and Revit is essential. Working knowledge of AutoCAD is expected.

Appetite for digital tools and AI: no need to know how to code, but the will to integrate them into your practice and to make it evolve is essential.

Speed and synthesis: our clients are real estate developers, whose requirements bear first on speed and efficiency. You must be able to produce a credible, well-drawn scenario in hours, to get to the point on ambiguous cases, and to know what level of detail serves the decision at each phase.

Technical skills

• Excellent command of residential plan design: layout, orientations, depths, cores, T1 to T5 ratios.
• Solid working knowledge of local planning documents and of the logic of their application (envelope, height, setbacks, spacing rules, footprint, permeable ground, parking, permitted uses).
• Ability to connect a rule to its concrete impact on a plan or on buildable capacity.
• Good knowledge of the phases of a project, from feasibility to schematic design, and of what each phase implies in level of detail.
• Production of graphic documents: images and diagrams that explain the project and make it visible.

Additional skills

• Rigor and a sense of synthesis, notably on ambiguous cases.
• Structuring information: knowing how to organize what you produce so that others, human or machine, can use it.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with the product, tech and real estate teams.

WHY JOIN DAVIS?

• Work on a real transformation of the real estate profession and co-build a new-generation feasibility standard with a high-level technical team.
• Have a direct and visible impact on every deliverable and take part in the continuous progress of the technology.
• Be exposed to a rare volume and diversity of projects, often large-scale and with a strong urban dimension.
• Join a driven and ambitious team, in a young growing company where the methods and the tools are still being bu