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Structural Engineer - Building Systems / DFMA

Reframesystems

Andover, MA, USonsiteManufacturing

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ABOUT US

Reframe Systems is a Physical AI and robotics company on a mission to make high-performance housing attainable and abundant in the communities where people want to live. Through our vertically integrated delivery model and highly automated microfactories, we deliver climate-resilient homes and buildings with greater speed and predictability than traditional construction.

Our volumetric modular buildings are produced in our Andover, MA microfactory, with a growing pipeline across North America and a new microfactory on the way. We are building a system that balances repeatability with site-responsive design, enabling homes adaptable to each site, community, and customer need. Our cross-disciplinary team brings together architecture, robotics, design engineering, software, factory operations, and field delivery to change how housing gets delivered.

We’re reimagining the future of housing through a smarter and more sustainable system that empowers people to live better. Come build it with us.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own the structural system for our platform - Define standard structural assemblies for walls, floors, roofs, stairs, and connections that balance strength, stiffness, cost, and manufacturability. - Set design rules, load paths, typical details, and tolerances that can be reused across products and projects.

- Bridge design, modeling, and manufacturing - Partner with architects and modelers to translate architectural intent into structurally rational, factory‑buildable systems. - Work with our Onshape Modeling / FeatureScript teams so structural rules are encoded in models, automation, and shop documentation (not just in isolated details).

- Lead structural engineering on key projects - Develop internal structural schemes and calculations for priority projects before they go to the Engineer of Record. - Prepare clear, well‑structured packages for external structural engineers and third‑party inspectors, and drive efficient review cycles.

- Tighten the loop between design, factory, and field - Diagnose structural root causes behind issues like cracking, misfits, or tolerance clashes in factory and field. - Turn lessons learned from the floor and jobsite into updated details, standards, and rules that prevent recurrence.

- Manage and level‑up external partners - Coordinate with EORs and other consultants to align on performance criteria, details, and assumptions. - Push for designs that are safe and code‑compliant without unnecessary over‑design, and quantify trade‑offs in cost and manufacturability.

- Contribute to platform‑level system studies - Co‑lead investigations into new structural concepts and their implications for cost, throughput, carbon, and field performance. - Work with systems and MEP engineering to rationalize penetrations, chases, and integrated assemblies.

- Prototype automated structural optimization workflows - Work 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). - Help define how structural models, analysis tools, and modeling pipeline should interact so these studies can eventually be run automatically for both platforms and projects.

OUTCOMES

By your 90‑day mark, we’ll look to you to have driven tangible, system‑level progress. Specifically, you will:

1. Establish a baseline structural “kit of parts” - Document 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). - Identify where current details are over‑designed, under‑specified, or misaligned with factory reality, and propose targeted updates.

2. Close at least two recurring structural pain loops between design and factory - Partner 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). - For each, deliver: - A concise root‑cause write‑up, including structural and process contributors. - A concrete change to details, standards, or tolerances that is implemented in our drawings, models, or Sidekick documentation.

3. Define a repeatable collaboration model with our structural EOR - For at least one active project, lead the structural engagement with the EOR from internal concept through stamped package. - Produce 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).

4. Embed structural logic in our digital toolchain - Work 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. - Document the next 3–5 candidate rules that should follow, with a clear sense of impact and implementation difficulty.

5. Create a shared, practical definition of “structurally done” - Align 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). - Propose a simple checklist or gate for at least one stage that we begin piloting on live work.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience - 7+ years of structural engineering experience on building projects, ideally including multifamily or high‑repeatability housing types. -

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