Founding Engineer

We are building the AI CAD tool for architects and engineers, starting with data center design.

About Us

• William and Brian met at Carnegie Mellon
• William worked at Meta and built homes in Texas
• Brian ran Rent the Backyard (YC S19), a housing factory in Oakland, CA
• William and Brian worked on their own CAD tools independently
• William and Brian met back up and started working together
• William and Brian took a small detour building AI on top of other CAD tools to go to market faster
• William and Brian realized with Claude Code it is now possible to build a better CAD engine and get to market
• William and Brian took their learnings and market demand and set out to build a better CAD engine from scratch to aid the whole market, starting with data centers

Our CAD Tool

Our CAD tool differentiates with a few core feature sets:

• Web-first: heavy computation happens server-side
• Code-first: every component is defined via code. The biggest benefit to code-first is that AI is really good at reasoning over code. If you turn CAD into code, LLMs can do amazing things.
• Parallelization: cloud-first enables us to spin up agents to test stuff and return completed work back to the main plan

The end state for a user: tell the AI what you want, the AI encodes all your business rules & logic down to the component level in deterministic logic, sends a swarm of agents off to test work, then returns a finished, tested plan back to the user.

Why Join the ArchiLabs Team

• You want to be on the critical path to AGI by helping build data centers faster
• You are excited about the physical world and where software and the real world meet
• You are excited about unlocking productivity gains across homebuilding, industrials, and more
• FUN! The work is fun and the people are (hopefully in your eyes) fun!

The Role

We are looking for a founding engineer. The founding engineer should have the following traits:

• Good systems background. We extensively use AI at ArchiLabs for development, but you can't vibe code a CAD engine
• Process oriented. Software engineering has become more about scoping, testing, acceptance criteria than writing raw code.
• AI experience. We expect fluency when it comes to using AI tools.