Computational Designer — Hybrid Living Textiles

The role

This person will develop algorithmic processes, predictive models, and automated fabrication systems for living and engineered matter. They will work across computational textile design, biological behavior modeling, and fabrication process engineering.

What you will do

• Build pipelines that translate computational designs into machine instructions.
• Model and predict complex behavior for simulation and design optimization.
• Develop mechanistic, dynamical, or data-driven models of biological processes.
• Use computation to narrow large combinatorial possibility spaces.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, biologists, and designers.
• Communicate work through meetings, presentations, and creative outlets.
• Maintain a shared library of processes, models, and tools.

Required qualifications

• Strong programming ability.
• Cross-disciplinary instinct to translate ideas between design, engineering, and biology.
• Maker mindset.
• Portfolio demonstrating original computational work and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Commitment to the team and to ethics and integrity in all work.
• Computational design tools such as Rhino or Grasshopper.
• Knit/textile programming environments such as KnitPaint, Stoll M1 Plus, or Shima Seiki APEX.
• Hands-on experience with CNC knitting machines (STOLL and/or Shima Seiki) and/or industrial jacquard looms.
• Strong grasp of the physics and mechanics of knitted and woven textiles, fibers, and deformation.
• Mechanistic and/or data-driven modeling of biological or physical systems.
• Robotics, CNC, sensing, and control systems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with combinatorial assembly, multicellular behavior, or microbial systems

About the company

OXMAN is a hybrid Design and R&D company that fuses design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments.