Systems Architect

The role

The System Architect will own the technical architecture across EDEN's platform, science, and applications teams. This person will design and build the system that composes models, runs closed-loop simulation and optimization at scale, and delivers results through a single interface.

What you will do

• Define core abstractions including shared schema of traits, physical fields, and world states
• Architect the search, optimization, and agentic control loop
• Design and build the runtime for physical simulation and learned surrogate models
• Unify research prototypes onto a portable, scalable foundation
• Make validation, provenance, and uncertainty calibration part of the architecture
• Design the data and delivery platform for geospatial and ecological data
• Set engineering practices for testing, reproducibility, and CI

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience designing and owning complex compute- or data-intensive systems
• Track record of turning research prototypes into reliable, well-structured products
• Strong systems design and Python expertise
• Comfort with GPU workloads, parallel orchestration and cloud infrastructure
• Systems architecture and design for compute- and data-intensive platforms
• Expert-level Python
• Runtime design for simulation and long-running optimization
• Data platform design including geospatial and ecological data ingestion, versioned state, backend services and APIs
• Validation and reproducibility engineering
• Engineering practice including testing, CI and separating research code from production code

Nice to have

• Experience with black-box, Bayesian or multi-objective optimization, quality-diversity search or reinforcement learning
• Experience orchestrating and sandboxing LLM agents or program synthesis in production
• Experience with surrogate modeling, differentiable simulation or GPU compute frameworks
• Experience with procedural, DAG or node-based execution systems
• Experience integrating with 3D web visualization, CAD/BIM or GIS software
• An interest in ecology, earth observation or environmental modeling

About the company

OXMAN is a nature-based research and design company based in Manhattan. They develop nature-centric solutions to critical environmental challenges by working across disciplines like architecture, ecology, computation, and materials science.