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Founding MEP Software Engineer

ArchiLabs · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About ArchiLabs

AI Data Center Design. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • Experience in MEP
  • Experience in data center design
  • Experience in software engineering
More about this role

We are building the AI CAD tool for architects and engineers, starting with common MEP/data center workflows

  • 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 MEP/data center use cases.
  • 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...

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