Residential Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026.
TLDR; Davis is looking for a residential specialist, excellent in plan and in drawing, who wants to practice the craft differently than in an agency. We expect around three to four years of experience.
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
This role sits at the meeting point of two worlds Davis is working to bring together: architectural expertise and artificial intelligence. It is not a conventional architect role. It spans three complementary dimensions: guaranteeing the quality and architectural credibility of our deliverables, now generated in hours; co-producing the architectural plans that go with them; and actively contributing to the development of our plan-generation technology. It is an architect role whose impact reaches well beyond your own output.
You will run a portfolio of residential projects, under the supervision of a lead architect, from feasibility through to schematic design.
The core of the role
Read the local planning documents (zoning plans, development-orientation schemes, easements) and derive the project assumptions from them.
Develop massing, circulation principles and capacity scenarios consistent with the regulatory framework.
Certify the architectural credibility of what the pipeline produces, confirming that each plan is sound and setting out the reasoning behind it.
Develop the project phase after phase, from a first capacity scenario through to a resolved project at schematic design.
Produce the graphic documents (plans, images, diagrams) that make the project clear and compelling.
Arbitrate between scenarios against programmatic, regulatory and economic constraints.
Contribute to the technology
Formalize best practice, translating what a strong residential plan respects into criteria our AI teams can use.
Qualify the model's outputs, defining the standard a strong plan meets and validating each result against it, with the reasoning.
Work across the product, tech and real estate teams, inside the tool's continuous-improvement cycles.
Work as a team
Take part in project reviews and exchange with the other architects to improve the methods and the quality of the deliverables.
Contribute to the team's graphic standards.
Who We Are Looking For
Education: a degree in architecture.
Experience: around 3 to 4 years in an agency, ideally one specialized in residential work. You have a real command of the residential floor plan and can, from a site and a brief, produce credible, well-drawn capacity scenarios.
Software: mastery of Rhino and Revit is essential, and AutoCAD is expected.
Appetite for digital tools and AI: you do not need to code, but the drive to fold these tools into your practice and push it forward is essential.
Speed and synthesis: our clients are real estate developers, whose demands are first about speed and efficiency. You need to produce a credible, well-drawn scenario in hours, cut to the essential on ambiguous cases, and know what level of detail serves the decision at each phase.
Domain skills
Command of the residential floor plan, circulation, orientation, building depths, cores, the unit-type mix from studio to four-bedroom, tenure types (market-rate, social, intermediate, and affordable home-ownership).
Command of the planning documents and how they apply, massing envelope, height, setbacks, spacing rules, footprint, permeable ground, parking, land-use categories.
From rule to impact, linking a rule to its concrete effect on a plan or a buildable capacity.
Project phases, a solid grasp of the phases from feasibility to schematic design, and what each one implies in level of detail.
Graphic production, images and diagrams that explain the project and make it legible.
Complementary skills
Rigor and a sense of synthesis, especially on ambiguous cases.
Structuring information, organizing what you produce so that others, human or machine, can use it.
An ability to work across the product, tech and real estate teams.
Why Join Davis?
Work on a real transformation of the real estate profession and co-build a next-generation feasibility standard with a high-caliber technical team.
Have a direct, 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.
Join a driven, ambitious team, in a young, growing company where the methods and the tools are still being built and where your expertise truly counts. Enough to learn fast and shape the way we work.
Package
Full-time fixed-term contract, with the possibility of moving to permanent
Competitive compensation based on profile
Offices in the center of Paris 2e
Private health insurance covered
Meal vouchers
Gym membership covered
50% of commuting costs reimbursed
More information about Davis, the team and the market we’re going after:
Team
Mehdi (CEO) grew up in a family of architects and has lived this problem firsthand. He's a repeat founder who bootstrapped his first startup at 20, and graduated from Sciences Po and HEC Paris. Amine (CTO) is an AI researcher from École Polytechnique who worked extensively on discrete diffusion and turned down a PhD with Google DeepMind to build Davis. They started working together in July 2025 at Entrepreneur First's first European residency, a two-month lock-in in a German castle.
Today we're a team of 12: technical profiles from Polytechnique, ENS and INRIA alongside architects and deep real estate expertise.
We're small with an extremely high bar. If you want to work deeply on hard problems and see your work reach clients within days, you're the one we need.
Why We'll Win
Real estate is a $13 trillion industry that technology has largely bypassed. The professional services that feed it (design, engineering, feasibility, permitting) represent hundreds of billions in spend that no one has seriously automated.
Proptech spent the last decade selling SaaS on the edges of these workflows. It didn't work, for two reasons: no professional wants another tool to learn, and no tool can automate work that runs on expert judgment. Davis makes a different bet. We don't sell tools, we sell the work: AI-generated, expert-validated, delivered in days instead of weeks. Every project compounds our data advantage across typologies, geographies and regulatory contexts.
We care about who you are, not just what's on your CV.
If you're drawn to what we're building but don't meet every requirement, we still want to hear from you. Studies show that women in particular tend to apply only when they meet 100% of the criteria. If that's you, please don't let that hold you back. We'd love to receive your application.