Parametric Land Planner / Site Planning Architect (Project based role!)

About TraceAir

Founded in 2015, TraceAir is transforming land development and home-building with drone-based 3D mapping, geospatial analytics, and automation. More than 200 U.S. builders already rely on our platform to cut costs, compress schedules, and make smarter decisions.

Our 150-person company is fully distributed (Valencia • Yerevan • Seattle), works in two-week SCRUM sprints, and shares an engineering culture that prizes pragmatism, ownership, and technical excellence.

Our Why & How

Purpose: To give people the physical environments they need to realize their full potential.
Vision: To convert construction designs into reality instantly.
Mission: To provide software powered by real-time data for those who actually build.

Our Values

• 🎯 Guide users to success

• 🚀 Strive for high performance, precision, and accuracy

• 📚 Never stop learning

• 🔮 Think forward and innovate

• 🌱 Create the best environment for the most forward-thinking talents

Media Mentions

• Interview with TraceAir

• TraceAir life in Silicon Valley on Rubase

• TraceAir & 500 Startups on Snob

• Russians conquer America on Varlamov.ru

About the Role

We’re looking for a land planner or architect with hands-on experience in parametric design for U.S. residential developments.
This is a project-based consulting role, not a full-time position.
The ideal candidate understands how to design at the site planning/community layout level — single-family, townhomes, master-planned communities — including:
• Lot layouts and road networks
• Block structures and grading constraints
• Typical U.S. planning standards
This role does not involve building architecture — only site planning.

Scope of the project

This consulting engagement focuses on how parametric workflows improve real-world residential site planning.
We want to learn:
• How land planners set up rules, constraints, and optimization parameters
• How Grasshopper scripts integrate with typical planning tasks
• Where parametric design saves time or improves design outcomes

• Strong experience in Grasshopper (required) and parametric workflows for land planning.
• Practical understanding of U.S. site planning norms, constraints, and design standards.
• Previous work on SFH or townhouse subdivisions, preferably with iterative or rules-based design processes.
• Ability to explain and demonstrate how parametric tools were used in real-world projects.

Logistics

• Fully remote.
• Location flexible — any U.S. state.
• Engagement will be structured as project-based consulting.