Head of Design Engineering

About Camphomes

Camphomes designs and manufactures luxury teak kit-of-parts homes — precision-engineered, beautifully crafted, and shippable to any site in the world. Co-founded by a capital markets veteran and a master craftsman, the company combines architectural-grade joinery with a manufacturing discipline that is rare in the high-end housing segment. Our current production facility is in Nicaragua; we are planning a new manufacturing plant in Panama.

Our target market is placemaker developers — sophisticated real estate and hospitality operators creating branded residential communities, luxury resorts, eco-lodges, and master-planned destinations who need a premium housing solution they can deploy at scale without compromising quality, story, or craft.

Camphomes is built on a system of three timber frame form factors — 16-foot, 20-foot, and 24-foot — within which each home is semi-custom. That system is the engine of the business: it lets us offer the soul of a custom home with the economics and timeline of a productized one. But the system only works if the design pipeline behind it works. That pipeline is where this role lives.

Why This Role Exists

Every Camphomes project moves through the same sequence: conceptual design, detailed design development, shop drawings, permit sets, and coordination with structural engineering. Today this sequence is a bottleneck. Each semi-custom home requires meaningful design work on top of the underlying form-factor system, and as we move into multi-unit placemaker developments, hospitality portfolios, and global SPEC homebuilder partnerships, the volume of design production required will outrun any traditional studio model.

We are not hiring someone to work harder inside the old model. We are hiring someone to replace it. We believe that a significant portion of the conceptual-to-permit-set pipeline is now automatable — through parametric modeling, template-based generation, AI agents that assemble and check drawing sets, automated structural coordination, and LLM-assisted permit documentation. We want a leader who already sees this future clearly, has begun building toward it, and is hungry to do so at a company where they will have the authority, resources, and partnership to actually make it real.

What You Will Own

• The Design Pipeline, End to End

• Own the full flow from client brief to permit-ready package across all three Camphomes form factors: 16', 20', and 24' timber frames.

• Conceptual design: translate placemaker, developer, and end-client briefs into Camphomes schemes that honor the system and the brand.

• Detailed design: develop schemes into the full design documentation package.

• Shop drawings: produce the fabrication-ready drawings that drive the factory floor — in tight coordination with the Head of Manufacturing.