{"id":1311330,"url":"https://alion.io/job/davis-ai-residential-architect","title":"Residential Architect","company":{"id":2515142,"name":"Davis AI","domain":"meetdavis.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/meetdavis","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Paris, France"],"countries":["FR"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":69000,"max_usd":150000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":313},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Hugging Face","optional":false},{"name":"Supabase","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T14:32:10Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T01:14:24Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"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.\nAbout Davis\nDavis 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.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nThe role\nThis 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.\nYou will run a portfolio of residential projects, under the supervision of a lead architect, from feasibility through to schematic design.\nThe core of the role\nRead the local planning documents (zoning plans, development-orientation schemes, easements) and derive the project assumptions from them.\n\nDevelop massing, circulation principles and capacity scenarios consistent with the regulatory framework.\n\nCertify the architectural credibility of what the pipeline produces, confirming that each plan is sound and setting out the reasoning behind it.\n\nDevelop the project phase after phase, from a first capacity scenario through to a resolved project at schematic design.\n\nProduce the graphic documents (plans, images, diagrams) that make the project clear and compelling.\n\nArbitrate between scenarios against programmatic, regulatory and economic constraints.\n\nContribute to the technology\nFormalize best practice, translating what a strong residential plan respects into criteria our AI teams can use.\n\nQualify the model's outputs, defining the standard a strong plan meets and validating each result against it, with the reasoning.\n\nWork across the product, tech and real estate teams, inside the tool's continuous-improvement cycles.\n\nWork as a team\nTake part in project reviews and exchange with the other architects to improve the methods and the quality of the deliverables.\n\nContribute to the team's graphic standards.\n\nWho We Are Looking For\nEducation: a degree in architecture.\n\nExperience: 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.\n\nSoftware: mastery of Rhino and Revit is essential, and AutoCAD is expected.\n\nAppetite 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.\n\nSpeed 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.\n\nDomain skills\nCommand 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).\n\nCommand of the planning documents and how they apply, massing envelope, height, setbacks, spacing rules, footprint, permeable ground, parking, land-use categories.\n\nFrom rule to impact, linking a rule to its concrete effect on a plan or a buildable capacity.\n\nProject phases, a solid grasp of the phases from feasibility to schematic design, and what each one implies in level of detail.\n\nGraphic production, images and diagrams that explain the project and make it legible.\n\nComplementary skills\nRigor and a sense of synthesis, especially on ambiguous cases.\n\nStructuring information, organizing what you produce so that others, human or machine, can use it.\n\nAn ability to work across the product, tech and real estate teams.\n\nWhy Join Davis?\nWork on a real transformation of the real estate profession and co-build a next-generation feasibility standard with a high-caliber technical team.\n\nHave a direct, visible impact on every deliverable and take part in the continuous progress of the technology.\n\nBe exposed to a rare volume and diversity of projects.\n\nJoin 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.\n\nPackage\nFull-time fixed-term contract, with the possibility of moving to permanent\n\nCompetitive compensation based on profile\n\nOffices in the center of Paris 2e\n\nPrivate health insurance covered\n\nMeal vouchers\n\nGym membership covered\n\n50% of commuting costs reimbursed\n\nMore information about Davis, the team and the market we’re going after:\nTeam\nMehdi (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.\nToday we're a team of 12: technical profiles from Polytechnique, ENS and INRIA alongside architects and deep real estate expertise.\nWe'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.\nWhy We'll Win\nReal 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.\nProptech 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.\nWe care about who you are, not just what's on your CV.\nIf 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. 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