Start designing tomorrow’s future!
Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and enthusiastic Graduate Lighting Designer to join our welcoming and diverse workplace culture in New York!
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.
Learn more about Lighting Design at Buro Happold
Your key duties:
- Environmental Impact Assessment work to meet planning requirements considering light spill analysis and overshadowing
- Sunlight & daylight massing analysis for architects and developers
- Daylight design including specification of control devices such as louvres and shading devices
- Lighting strategies & master-planning for public realm and cities
- Lighting concept designs
- Concept visualization & 3D light modelling
- Scheme outlines with cost feasibility
- Detailed lighting design including architectural integration detailing
- Lighting control specification
- Bespoke luminaire design
- Site monitoring, including programming of control systems and focusing of luminaires
Your skills and experience
This role will require the following:
- Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Architecture, Lighting, or Architectural Engineering
- Coursework and/or experience in architecture (studio and/or history), lighting, or building systems design
- Portfolio: Please include a link to your portfolio or attach it directly to your resume when applying
- Experience using AGI, Revit, Enscape, and Photoshop beneficial
- Experience in 3ds Max, ElumTools, Grasshopper or Rhino a bonus
- Interest in the lighting design industry with an emphasis on architectural lighting design or daylighting analysis
- Lighting related internship helpful
- Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible manner
- Eagerness to learn and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
What we offer:
- Salary range of $77,000 to $80,000. This will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience
- Generous benefits package
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Generous PTO (4 weeks) in addition to 10 paid holidays
- 401k with company match
- Hybrid working & summer hours
- Reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees
- Connection to global network of experts on the forefront of industry initiatives
- Access to wide ranging learning and development opportunities
- Be a part of supporting our diverse company culture through open engagement with our Young Employees Forum, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Buro Happold Women’s Network, and/or our Black at Buro Happold Employee Resource Groups
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Ready for something a little less ordinary?
Apply now to start your career journey with us.