Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

About the Team: 

Joby’s Infrastructure team is a diverse group of architects, planners, engineers, and builders working with our partners to deliver the vertiports and infrastructure that turn our aircraft into a safe, scalable, world-class service. We are seeking a Senior Architect to join our highly innovative team developing world class infrastructure to build vertiports at scale globally in dense urban environments. Working closely with our product, flight operations, and ground support equipment teams, we’re developing vertiport infrastructure designed for streamlined operations to maximize time savings for passengers, reinventing how infrastructure gets built and defining the future of aviation infrastructure.  

The senior architect will play a key role in developing vertiport infrastructure as a product that scales globally. You will rethink how vertiport terminals and electrified skydecks are designed and built, with a focus on design for constructability that allows for rapid on-site assembly without high skilled labor or heavy lifting equipment. You will spearhead our passenger processing terminal design and work with our structural, mechanical, electrical and fire protection engineers to develop integrated systems to streamline deck electrification for aircraft charging, lighting, data, snow melt, and fire protection systems for elevated, floating and surface landing decks. You will drive innovation through prototype design, build and testing iteration to continually work towards optimized vertiport launch solutions. 

• Full lifecycle project ownership from inception to completion, hosting design reviews, project decision justification, coordination and assistance with the construction of your ideas 

• Develop site layout options and masterplan ideas to help secure new landing locations and drive intelligent site design thinking across internal and external stakeholders 

• Design and detail terminal and skydeck concepts for site specific locations and prefabricated modular development for projects at scale 

• Create conceptual 3D vertiport models for sites and generate renderings using a combination of traditional rendering tools, drone images, google earth and AI processing 

• Develop a pricing database with unit metrics to track unit costs across vertiport projects to inform high value design decisions for future projects 

• Engage with Product, Flight Operations and Ground Support Equipment teams to understand priorities and challenge requirements in a positive, collaborative way 

• Develop and manage an organized design library to align architectural language, material selection, components and details across diverse market portfolios 

• Manage consultant design teams ensuring proper code definitions and minimum requirements are met while developing constructable, cost-effective, world-class infrastructure 

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or related field 

• 5+ years of experience in architectural design and technical detailing 

• Professional AIA license (California and/or New York preferred) 

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, take initiative, and communicate effectively 

• Ability to think creatively to collaborate across disciplines and departments in solving novel problems where few existing precedents, standards or methodologies exist 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment managing multiple projects, with the ability to pivot to meet the dynamic needs of the company 

• Creativity to imagine and design for cost, reliability, efficiency and maintainability from scratch 

• Ability to create high quality renderings, architectural layouts, drawings and details 

• Strong modeling and drawing generation skills using Autodesk Revit  

• Collaborative team player, eager to find the best solution while balancing cost and schedule 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Outcome driven and self-motivated with a positive attitude 

• Passion for aviation and advanced air mobility 

• Master’s degree in architecture 

• Experience designing aviation infrastructure 

• Licensed private or commercial pilot