Generalist Architect

TLDR; Davis is looking for an architect who has sized capacity across several programs, from light-industrial and logistics to residential, office and retail, and who wants to practice differently than in a traditional firm. Target experience: around 5 to 6 years.

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

Our clients come to us with a site and a capacity question, on a program that changes from one deal to the next. You are the one who answers whatever the program, and who stands behind the number in front of them.

You will run a portfolio of feasibility studies across light-industrial and logistics, residential, office, hospitality, retail and mixed‑use operations. You take these projects from feasibility through schematic design.

This role sits at the meeting point of two worlds Davis is precisely working to bring together: architectural expertise and artificial intelligence. This is not a conventional architect position. It spans three complementary dimensions: guaranteeing the architectural quality and credibility of our deliverables, today generated in a matter of hours; co‑producing the architectural drawings that accompany them; contributing actively to the development of our plan‑generation technology.

It is an architect role whose impact reaches well beyond its own output.

The core of the role

• Analyze local planning and zoning documents (land‑use plans, development guidelines, easements) and derive project assumptions from them.
• Set the programmatic assumptions for the program at hand, its ratios, structural grids and keys, and derive a quantified capacity.
• Check and correct the outputs of our tools: confirm what holds up, fix what does not, and explain why.
• Develop the project phase by phase, from a first capacity scenario through to a resolved project at schematic design.
• Produce the graphic documents (drawings, images, diagrams) that make the project clear and compelling.
• Arbitrate between several scenarios according to programmatic, regulatory and economic constraints.
• Stand behind your numbers with the client, and defend them under challenge.

Contributing to the technology

• Formalize best practice, program by program: translate ratios, structural grids and thresholds into criteria our AI teams can use.
• Assess the model's outputs: say what is right, what is wrong, and on what grounds.
• Work cross‑functionally with the product, tech and real estate teams throughout the tool's continuous‑improvement cycles.

Working 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.

What We’re Looking For

• Education: degree in architecture.
• Experience: around 5 to 6 years. You have sized capacity yourself on at least three different programs (multi‑family residential, logistics, light‑industrial parks, office, hospitality or retail). Logistics or light‑industrial is one of the three, as these are the programs that matter most to us. You know the ratios that govern each: clear height and loading docks in logistics and light‑ind