{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c0c840b659d9f8ee50fd7ca3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c0c840b659d9f8ee50fd7ca3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c0c840b659d9f8ee50fd7ca3","title":"Structural Engineer - Building Systems / DFMA","description":"What you'll do Own the structural system for our platform\r\nDefine standard structural assemblies for walls, floors, roofs, stairs, and connections that balance strength, stiffness, cost, and manufacturability.\r\nSet design rules, load paths, typical details, and tolerances that can be reused across products and projects.\r\nBridge design, modeling, and manufacturing\r\nPartner with architects and modelers to translate architectural intent into structurally rational, factory-buildable systems.\r\nWork with our Onshape Modeling / FeatureScript teams so structural rules are encoded in models, automation, and shop documentation (not just in isolated details).\r\nLead structural engineering on key projects\r\nDevelop internal structural schemes and calculations for priority projects before they go to the Engineer of Record.\r\nPrepare clear, well-structured packages for external structural engineers and third-party inspectors, and drive efficient review cycles.\r\nTighten the loop between design, factory, and field\r\nDiagnose structural root causes behind issues like cracking, misfits, or tolerance clashes in factory and field.\r\nTurn lessons learned from the floor and jobsite into updated details, standards, and rules that prevent recurrence.\r\nManage and level-up external partners\r\nCoordinate with EORs and other consultants to align on performance criteria, details, and assumptions.\r\nPush for designs that are safe and code-compliant without unnecessary over-design, and quantify trade-offs in cost and manufacturability.\r\nContribute to platform-level system studies\r\nCo-lead investigations into new structural concepts and their implications for cost, throughput, carbon, and field performance.\r\nWork with systems and MEP engineering to rationalize penetrations, chases, and integrated assemblies.\r\nPrototype automated structural optimization workflows\r\nWork with modeling and software teams to design simple, repeatable optimization studies for key framing systems (for example: minimizing steel tonnage subject to drift limits, or comparing lateral systems across cost and constructability).\r\nHelp define how structural models, analysis tools, and modeling pipeline should interact so these studies can eventually be run automatically for both platforms and projects.\r\nOutcomes you will own in your first 90 days By your 90-day mark, we'll look to you to have driven tangible, system-level progress. Specifically, you will:\r\nEstablish a baseline structural \"kit of parts\"\r\nDocument standard wall, floor, and roof assemblies (including spans, sheathing patterns, shear wall strategy, tie-downs, and typical connections) for a selected product line (e.g., Triple Decker or comparable module set).\r\nIdentify where current details are over-designed, under-specified, or misaligned with factory reality, and propose targeted updates.\r\nClose at least two recurring structural pain loops between design and factory\r\nPartner with factory, modeling, and design teams to select two recurring issues with structural implications (for example: cracking during lifts, truss dimension mismatches, missing shear/nailing schedules, or wall fit problems).\r\nFor each, deliver:\r\nA concise root-cause write-up, including structural and process contributors.\r\nA concrete change to details, standards, or tolerances that is implemented in our drawings, models, or Sidekick documentation.\r\nDefine a repeatable collaboration model with our structural EOR\r\nFor at least one active project, lead the structural engagement with the EOR from internal concept through stamped package.\r\nProduce a lightweight \"playbook\" for how we want to work with stamping engineers going forward (what we own, what they own, how we avoid unnecessary over-design, and how we keep decisions synchronized with our models).\r\nEmbed structural logic in our digital toolchain\r\nWork with modeling and software partners to get at least one important structural rule (for example: standard nailing schedule behavior, span checks, or connection rules) expressed in a way that can be encoded in our parametric modeling workflows.\r\nDocument the next 3–5 candidate rules that should follow, with a clear sense of impact and implementation difficulty.\r\nCreate a shared, practical definition of \"structural done\"\r\nAlign with architecture, modeling, and factory engineering on what \"structurally done\" means at each stage (concept, permit, issued-for-modeling, issued-for-factory, issued-for-field).\r\nPropose a simple checklist or gate for at least one stage that we begin piloting on live work.\r\nWhat you bring Experience\r\n7+ years of structural engineering experience on building projects, ideally including multifamily or high-repeatability housing types.\r\nExperience with modular, offsite, panelized, or other prefabricated systems is a strong plus.\r\nDemonstrated track record of coordinating with architects, MEP engineers, fabricators, and field teams.\r\nTechnical depth\r\nStrong grasp of structural behavior in wood/light-gauge and mixed-material systems (gravity, lateral, connections, deflection, movement, and creep).\r\nSolid understanding of current building codes and standards, including IBC, ASCE 7, and relevant material-specific codes.\r\nFamiliarity with Massachusetts and/or California building codes, and comfort working with third-party modular inspection agencies and local AHJs.\r\nProficiency with structural analysis and documentation tools; comfortable working from and back into Revit, and able to collaborate effectively with parametric CAD environments (Onshape, SolidWorks, Tekla, etc.).\r\nExperience with or strong interest in API-driven structural tools (for example SkyCiv, Dlubal RFEM 6, or similar), or a track record of using scripting/automation around more traditional tools (e.g., RISA, ETABS, SAP) to run repeatable studies and optimizations.\r\nSystems mindset\r\nExcited to turn one-off project details into reusable patterns and rules.\r\nAble to weigh cost, manufacturability, throughput, and embodied carbon alongside pure structural performance.\r\nCollaboration and communication\r\nClear communicator who can explain structural trade-offs to architects, modelers, factory leaders, and executives.\r\nComfortable engaging directly with trades and factory operators to understand what actually happens on the floor and in the field.\r\nBias to action\r\nInclined to test ideas quickly on real problems, including prototypes, then codify what works.\r\nComfortable operating in ambiguity and helping define processes, not just following them.\r\nIf you're excited by the idea of owning the structural backbone of a new kind of housing platform, and you want to see your work move from model to robot to home in weeks, not years, we'd love to talk.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Reframe Systems","rawCompany":"reframe systems","city":"Andover","state":"MA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T09:32:37.473Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"17-2051.00","title":"Civil Engineers","slug":"civil-engineers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"332312","title":"Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing","slug":"fabricated-structural-metal-manufacturing"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"},{"code":"238120","title":"Structural Steel and Precast Concrete Contractors","slug":"structural-steel-and-precast-concrete-contractors"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Structural Engineer - Building Systems / DFMA","description":"What you'll do Own the structural system for our platform\r\nDefine standard structural assemblies for walls, floors, roofs, stairs, and connections that balance strength, stiffness, cost, and manufacturability.\r\nSet design rules, load paths, typical details, and tolerances that can be reused across products and projects.\r\nBridge design, modeling, and manufacturing\r\nPartner with architects and modelers to translate architectural intent into structurally rational, factory-buildable systems.\r\nWork with our Onshape Modeling / FeatureScript teams so structural rules are encoded in models, automation, and shop documentation (not just in isolated details).\r\nLead structural engineering on key projects\r\nDevelop internal structural schemes and calculations for priority projects before they go to the Engineer of Record.\r\nPrepare clear, well-structured packages for external structural engineers and third-party inspectors, and drive efficient review cycles.\r\nTighten the loop between design, factory, and field\r\nDiagnose structural root causes behind issues like cracking, misfits, or tolerance clashes in factory and field.\r\nTurn lessons learned from the floor and jobsite into updated details, standards, and rules that prevent recurrence.\r\nManage and level-up external partners\r\nCoordinate with EORs and other consultants to align on performance criteria, details, and assumptions.\r\nPush for designs that are safe and code-compliant without unnecessary over-design, and quantify trade-offs in cost and manufacturability.\r\nContribute to platform-level system studies\r\nCo-lead investigations into new structural concepts and their implications for cost, throughput, carbon, and field performance.\r\nWork with systems and MEP engineering to rationalize penetrations, chases, and integrated assemblies.\r\nPrototype automated structural optimization workflows\r\nWork with modeling and software teams to design simple, repeatable optimization studies for key framing systems (for example: minimizing steel tonnage subject to drift limits, or comparing lateral systems across cost and constructability).\r\nHelp define how structural models, analysis tools, and modeling pipeline should interact so these studies can eventually be run automatically for both platforms and projects.\r\nOutcomes you will own in your first 90 days By your 90-day mark, we'll look to you to have driven tangible, system-level progress. Specifically, you will:\r\nEstablish a baseline structural \"kit of parts\"\r\nDocument standard wall, floor, and roof assemblies (including spans, sheathing patterns, shear wall strategy, tie-downs, and typical connections) for a selected product line (e.g., Triple Decker or comparable module set).\r\nIdentify where current details are over-designed, under-specified, or misaligned with factory reality, and propose targeted updates.\r\nClose at least two recurring structural pain loops between design and factory\r\nPartner with factory, modeling, and design teams to select two recurring issues with structural implications (for example: cracking during lifts, truss dimension mismatches, missing shear/nailing schedules, or wall fit problems).\r\nFor each, deliver:\r\nA concise root-cause write-up, including structural and process contributors.\r\nA concrete change to details, standards, or tolerances that is implemented in our drawings, models, or Sidekick documentation.\r\nDefine a repeatable collaboration model with our structural EOR\r\nFor at least one active project, lead the structural engagement with the EOR from internal concept through stamped package.\r\nProduce a lightweight \"playbook\" for how we want to work with stamping engineers going forward (what we own, what they own, how we avoid unnecessary over-design, and how we keep decisions synchronized with our models).\r\nEmbed structural logic in our digital toolchain\r\nWork with modeling and software partners to get at least one important structural rule (for example: standard nailing schedule behavior, span checks, or connection rules) expressed in a way that can be encoded in our parametric modeling workflows.\r\nDocument the next 3–5 candidate rules that should follow, with a clear sense of impact and implementation difficulty.\r\nCreate a shared, practical definition of \"structural done\"\r\nAlign with architecture, modeling, and factory engineering on what \"structurally done\" means at each stage (concept, permit, issued-for-modeling, issued-for-factory, issued-for-field).\r\nPropose a simple checklist or gate for at least one stage that we begin piloting on live work.\r\nWhat you bring Experience\r\n7+ years of structural engineering experience on building projects, ideally including multifamily or high-repeatability housing types.\r\nExperience with modular, offsite, panelized, or other prefabricated systems is a strong plus.\r\nDemonstrated track record of coordinating with architects, MEP engineers, fabricators, and field teams.\r\nTechnical depth\r\nStrong grasp of structural behavior in wood/light-gauge and mixed-material systems (gravity, lateral, connections, deflection, movement, and creep).\r\nSolid understanding of current building codes and standards, including IBC, ASCE 7, and relevant material-specific codes.\r\nFamiliarity with Massachusetts and/or California building codes, and comfort working with third-party modular inspection agencies and local AHJs.\r\nProficiency with structural analysis and documentation tools; comfortable working from and back into Revit, and able to collaborate effectively with parametric CAD environments (Onshape, SolidWorks, Tekla, etc.).\r\nExperience with or strong interest in API-driven structural tools (for example SkyCiv, Dlubal RFEM 6, or similar), or a track record of using scripting/automation around more traditional tools (e.g., RISA, ETABS, SAP) to run repeatable studies and optimizations.\r\nSystems mindset\r\nExcited to turn one-off project details into reusable patterns and rules.\r\nAble to weigh cost, manufacturability, throughput, and embodied carbon alongside pure structural performance.\r\nCollaboration and communication\r\nClear communicator who can explain structural trade-offs to architects, modelers, factory leaders, and executives.\r\nComfortable engaging directly with trades and factory operators to understand what actually happens on the floor and in the field.\r\nBias to action\r\nInclined to test ideas quickly on real problems, including prototypes, then codify what works.\r\nComfortable operating in ambiguity and helping define processes, not just following them.\r\nIf you're excited by the idea of owning the structural backbone of a new kind of housing platform, and you want to see your work move from model to robot to home in weeks, not years, we'd love to talk.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-04-09T09:32:37.473Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T09:32:37.473Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reframe Systems","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Andover","addressRegion":"MA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"c0c840b659d9f8ee50fd7ca3"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c0c840b659d9f8ee50fd7ca3"}}