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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at OXMAN'
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# Senior Software Engineer at OXMAN

- **Company:** OXMAN
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $120k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oxman/970a81b8-9eb3-4269-866f-e17b30f780f9/application

**Skills:** React, Vue, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Three.js, Unity, Unreal, Object-Oriented Programming, CI/CD, Web-based 3D rendering, Real-time graphics tools, C++, .NET, Rhino, Blender, Houdini, GIS, Remote sensing data analysis

> OXMAN seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build full-stack web applications and 3D visualization tools for Eden Technologies. The role involves integrating environmental simulation and generative design into scalable software platforms to support architectural and urban design projects.

## Job description

## OXMAN

OXMAN is a nature-based research and design company based in Manhattan. We incubate ventures and technologies that reimagine the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Working across disciplines—from architecture and ecology to computation and materials science—we develop nature-centric solutions to critical environmental challenges.

## EDEN

EDEN is a digital design environment for the engineering and design of ecosystems—modeling the flows, relationships, and processes that sustain ecosystems, while bridging ecology and technology to enable the creation of resilient landscapes. We develop tools that quantify how landscapes can be engineered toward specific performance goals—cooling cities, filtering water, sequestering carbon, protecting key species—then use those tools to guide the design of ecologically active sites. EDEN operates as both a design and innovation practice and an emerging software product. Today, our work spans strategic partnerships with developers, project-based design and analytics engagements, and the development of a software platform that packages our internal tools for broader use across the architecture, landscape architecture, and development industries.

## Role Overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovation-driven Senior Software Engineer to support our Eden Technologies—comprising design optimization, generative tools, environmental simulation, and ecosystem behavior models—into an integrated software platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop innovative technologies and visually compelling software that supports the digital design of architectural and urban projects optimized for ecosystem services. Join us to redefine how design and technology can coexist with and enhance the natural world. Please provide a cover letter and portfolio if available.

## Key Responsibilities

- Architect and develop full-stack web applications integrating environmental simulation and generative design tools.
- Build interactive spatial and 3D visualization tools using modern web technologies.
- Collaborate with computational ecologists, designers, and researchers to translate models, methods, and visualizations into production software.
- Integrate geospatial datasets and environmental models into scalable software systems.
- Contribute to engineering best practices including testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code review standards.
- Contribute to platform architecture and modular system design.
- Produce technical documentation supporting maintainability and scalability.

## Key Goals & Outcomes

- Develop and scale Eden Technologies into an integrated software platform supporting architectural and urban design projects
- Build visually compelling full-stack applications that combine generative design, environmental simulation, and spatial visualization
- Create interactive 3D and geospatial tools that help designers evaluate ecosystem services and ecological outcomes
- Translate computational ecology research, environmental models, and design methods into usable production software
- Support the digital design of Nature-centric built environments through optimization, simulation, and data-driven workflows
- Improve platform maintainability, scalability, and extensibility through modular architecture and clear documentation
- Establish and uphold engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, code review, and collaborative development
- Enable multidisciplinary collaboration between software engineers, computational ecologists, designers, architects, and researchers
- Help advance OXMAN’s vision of integrating human-made and Nature-grown systems through design technology
- Deliver software that supports complex decision-making for architectural, urban, and ecological design contexts

Required Experience

- 5+ years building production web applications using React or Vue.
- Expert proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, lower level languages like C++ or .NET is a plus.
- Ability to communicate design concepts through diagrams or wireframes.
- Experience with web-based 3D rendering (e.g., Three.js) or real-time graphics tools (Unity/Unreal).
- Ability to build Object-Orientated class structure in code-base.
- Familiarity with 3D applications such as Rhino, Blender or Houdini.
- Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills, enthusiasm, and creativity to approach complex software development challenges.

## Preferred Experience

- Background in architecture or urban planning with expertise in computational methods (generative design, simulation, optimization, and environmental modeling).
- Experience analyzing scientific and spatial datasets, specifically utilizing GIS and remote sensing data.
- Strong communication skills with a proven ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Technical Skills

- Full-stack web application development with React or Vue
- Expert proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
- Experience with lower-level languages such as C++ or .NET preferred
- Web-based 3D rendering and real-time graphics experience, including tools such as Three.js, Unity, or Unreal
- Interactive spatial and 3D visualization development
- Generative design, design optimization, environmental simulation, and ecosystem behavior modeling
- Integration of geospatial datasets, GIS data, remote sensing data, and environmental models into scalable software systems
- Object-oriented programming and class-based code architecture
- Familiarity with 3D design and modeling applications such as Rhino, Blender, or Houdini
- Ability to create diagrams, wireframes, and other visual tools to communicate design concepts
- Platform architecture and modular system design
- Software engineering best practices, including testing, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and technical documentation
- Experience translating research models, computational methods, and visualizations into production-ready software

Essential Qualities

- Comfortable working in a highly interdisciplinary team across software engineering, design, architecture, ecology, research, and technology
- Self-motivated and able to drive complex technical work with a high degree of ownership
- Curious, exploratory, and eager to engage with unfamiliar domains, including environmental modeling, generative design, spatial data, and ecosystem services
- Innovative thinker with enthusiasm for developing new tools, workflows, and software platforms
- Strong collaborator who can translate ideas between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Creative problem-solver who can approach ambiguous software and research challenges with flexibility
- Clear communicator who can explain complex technical concepts through discussion, diagrams, wireframes, documentation, or prototypes
- Comfortable operating in a research-driven environment where methods, requirements, and product direction may evolve
- Detail-oriented in building maintainable, scalable, and production-quality software
- Mission-aligned with OXMAN’s vision of integrating design, technology, and biology to support positive ecological outcomes

## About OXMAN

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OXMAN is a design company fusing design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments that empower synergy between Nature and humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/Early Stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (787 Eleventh Ave)
- **Founded**: 2024 (public launch)
- **Founders**: Neri Oxman

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Design Services, Biotechnology, Materials Science, Architecture
- Target customers: B2B (corporate partners, industry clients), Academia, and Nature as a "co-client"
- Mission or purpose statement: To shift from human-centric design to Nature-centric design, creating design solutions by, for, and with Nature while advancing humanity. The company aims to heal the rift between Nature and humanity.

## Products & Services
- **O° Shoe (The O Shoe)**: A 100% biodegradable shoe made without petrochemicals, producing zero microplastics. Unveiled in October 2024. Represents the company's platform technology applied to consumer goods.
- **Platform Technologies**: R&D arm that invents platform technologies enabling design and production "by, for, and with Nature." These platforms can be applied across industries and scales—from consumer goods to urban plans, pharmaceuticals to apparel, organisms to rockets.
- **Design & Consulting Services**: Activist design practice that partners with industry and academia to implement Nature-centric values across design, manufacturing, construction, and operational practices.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goodman Group (partnership to explore design for ecosystem biodiversity and resilience), Foster + Partners (designed the OXMAN lab in NYC)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~24 employees (+4.5% YoY growth); active job postings; public launch in October 2024 with significant press coverage; first product (O° Shoe) unveiled; partnership with major real estate group Goodman Group

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder & Brand**: Founded by Neri Oxman, a world-renowned designer, architect, and former MIT Media Lab professor, giving the company immense credibility and a powerful network.
- **Interdisciplinary Approach**: Uniquely combines hardware, software, and "wetware" (biology) in a single practice, integrating an atelier, workshop, and lab.
- **Nature-Centric Design Philosophy**: A radical differentiator positioning Nature as a "co-client," moving beyond sustainability toward regeneration and synergy.
- **Platform Technologies**: Cross-scale, hierarchical design tools that can be applied across multiple industries, creating a defensible IP moat.
- **First Mover in Biodegradable Materials**: The O° Shoe is a tangible proof point of their platform's capability, addressing the massive microplastics problem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Development**: Scaling their platform technologies for broader industry application across multiple sectors.
- **Partnerships**: Leading corporate partners in implementing Nature-centric values across their operations (e.g., Goodman Group).
- **Product Commercialization**: Bringing the O° Shoe and other bio-integrated products to market.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Building a world-class interdisciplinary team of designers, engineers, scientists, and makers.
- **Thought Leadership**: Advancing the "Nature-centric design" philosophy as a new paradigm for the design and construction industries.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: A clear, bold vision to heal the rift between Nature and humanity. Work is framed as a "calling" with profound impact.
- **Interdisciplinary Excellence**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of design, engineering, biology, and computation with a world-class team.
- **Creative & Intellectual Freedom**: Emphasis on taking risks, exploring "impossible" challenges, and pursuing profound questions.
- **Values**: The company culture emphasizes integrity, empathy, mediation of dichotomies (design/R&D, made/grown), balancing the timely and timeless, and pursuing the profound.
- **Work Environment**: Based in a first-of-its-kind atelier, workshop, and lab in New York City, designed by Foster + Partners.
- **Team Composition**: Small (~24 people), highly specialized team with backgrounds from MIT Media Lab, top universities, and leading design/tech firms. Emphasis on self-direction and collaboration across disciplines.
- **Location**: New York City (HQ) with presence in France. Hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated but likely in-person given the lab/workshop nature.

## Sources
1. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/company)
2. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/mission)
3. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxman)
5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oxman-unveils-the-o-shoe---a-100-biodegradable-shoe-made-without-petrochemicals-producing-zero-microplastics-302290648.html)
6. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/neri-oxman-launches-oxman-a-revolutionary-practice-transforming-design-generation-manufacturing-and-construction-for-the-simultaneous-benefit-of-humans-and-the-natural-environment-302264818.html)
7. [fosterandpartners.com](https://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/foster-partners-and-neri-oxman-complete-the-groundbreaking-design-and-innovation-lab-for-oxman)
8. [goodman.com](https://www.goodman.com/news/2024/oxman-partnership)

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