Senior Architect / Structural Engineer/ MEP Engineer

1. Executive Summary
We are assembling a high-impact, partially client-facing team in Vietnam to support a Singapore-based AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations) SaaS company. This team, or "pod," will be responsible for delivering rapid feasibility studies and proofs of concept (POCs) for our Client's growing client base.
The team operates on the ongoing basis (team leasing model, no end date for contract)) as a managed pod with three distinct roles, each contributing specialized expertise while working collaboratively toward unified deliverables.
The primary objective is to leverage the design automation platform to compress the traditional 6-8 weeks feasibility study timeline into a 2-5 day turnaround. This requires a blend of strong domain expertise, computational/generative design awareness, and excellent client-facing skills. The team will focus on the residential and data centers design initially.
This team will be at the forefront of the latest developments and advancements in the industry and will have the pulse on the evolving computational design and parametric modelling frameworks.
Critical Clarification: The team does not need to be computational designers who script in Grasshopper, Dynamo, or other parametric tools. Instead, they are domain (architectural, structural and mechanical) experts who understand how generative design and parametric systems work, use our 'easy to use' Client`s tool exclusively for all design work, perform sanity checks on automated outputs using their professional judgment, and provide product feedback to improve the tool.
2. Team Structure (Pod Model)
The team will operate as a managed pod, coordinated by a Lead Architect who will serve as the team lead and primary client contact. The team has three distinct roles, each contributing specialized expertise while working collaboratively toward unified deliverables on a tight timeline.
The pod will consist of the following roles:
1. Lead Architect (Team Lead): Interpret client briefs and clarity requirements, Client communication, site strategy, initial scenario generation, team coordination
2. Structural Engineer: Structural Engineering scenario generation, structural validation, product feedback.
3. MEP Engineer: MEPF Engineering scenario generation, systems validation, product feedback
This structure is designed to be agile and scalable.
3. Role Specifications
1. Lead Architect (Team lead):
Primary Function: Client-facing communication, design initiation using Platform, team coordination, and overall design strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interpret client briefs and clarify requirements with clients.
- Define the high-level site strategy (building placement, access, orientation).
- Work with the customers to understand requirements for building design, and ensure objectives are achieved
- Initiate the design and generate 10-15 building scenarios using Our Solution.
- Coordinate team activities and ensure quality deliverables.
- Present final readout decks to clients with confidence and clarity.
- Help define interoperability workflows and guidelines - for the Podium platform - with other
standard authoring/design/compliance/BIM products.
- Join pre-sales calls, run demos, and onboard new users.
2. Structural Engineer
Primary Function: Scenario generation using Podium, structural design validation, and product feedback.
Key Responsibilities:
- Use our solutions to generate feasible design scenarios.
- Work with the customers (possibly via Lead Architect ) to understand requirements for building structural design, and ensure objectives are achieved
- Sanity check Platform's automated structural outputs against building codes and engineering principles using professional judgment.
- Verify that structural logic is sound and compliant (not by recalculating, but by reviewing outputs for reasonableness).
- Identify any issues or edge cases where the tool's logic may be incorrect or incomplete by reviewing design outputs.
- Document and communicate issues to the product team with specific requirements for tool improvements.
- evaluate, troubleshoot, optimize the platform generated designs for its applicability, accuracy and completeness from a practitioners or end-user point of view.
- Collaborate with MEP Engineer to ensure coordinated design.
3. MEP Engineer:
Primary Function: Scenario generation for MEP systems using Podium, design validation , and product feedback.
Key Responsibilities:
- Use Our solution to generate MEP systems
- Work with the customers (possibly via Lead Architect ) to understand requirements for building MEP design, and ensure objectives are achieved
- Sanity check on Podium's automated MEP outputs against building codes and engineering principles using professional judgment.
- Verify that equipment selection, sizing, and routing are reasonable and compliant against typical building codes across all disciplines - high level verification.
- Identify any issues or edge cases where the tool's logic may be incorrect or incomplete.
- Document and communicate issues to the product team*with specific requirements for tool improvements.
- Collaborate with Structural Engineer to ensure coordinated design.