Architecture and Design Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

Job Summary

As an Architecture & Design Quality Assurance Lead (QAL), you will oversee quality, consistency, and contributor performance across architecture, interior design, urban design, and built-environment AI training projects.

You will review AI-generated architecture and design content, spatial layouts, design concepts, material recommendations, accessibility analyses, and trainer/QA submissions to ensure outputs are accurate, practical, visually coherent, and aligned with project standards.

Your work will directly contribute to improving advanced AI systems by ensuring architecture and design training data reflects sound design principles, spatial reasoning, sustainability awareness, and real-world feasibility.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Monitoring

• Review architecture and design-related tasks and QA outputs
• Identify recurring quality issues, provide detailed written feedback, and escalate critical quality concerns

Architecture & Design Review

• Review and evaluate architecture explanations, interior design recommendations, urban design concepts, spatial layouts, material selections, building systems descriptions, accessibility analyses, sustainability recommendations, construction feasibility discussions, and design rationale and reasoning
• Assess work for design accuracy, spatial reasoning, architectural terminology, building systems awareness, code and safety sensitivity, sustainability considerations, accessibility compliance, visual and design logic, practicality, clarity, instruction adherence, and rubric compliance

Trainer & QA Communication

• Communicate guidelines, workflow changes, quality standards, architecture/design review expectations, and evaluation criteria

Contributor Support

• Answer questions involving spatial organization, design principles, accessibility, sustainability, building systems, construction logic, materiality, urban planning concepts, design communication, and rubric interpretation

Activation Management

• Follow up with inactive contributors, track engagement and participation, escalate availability concerns when needed

Documentation & Onboarding

• Create and maintain style guides, documentation, FAQs, quality notes, examples, calibration tasks, and onboarding resources
• Conduct onboarding and training sessions for contributors

Risk & Compliance Review

• Identify and flag unsafe design recommendations, accessibility violations, code-insensitive suggestions, impractical layouts, unrealistic construction assumptions, weak design rationale, sustainability oversights, poor spatial reasoning, and misleading architectural guidance

Process Improvement

• Improve QA workflows and identify recurring quality gaps
• Develop scalable architecture and design review processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Professional Degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design, Industrial Design, Urban Planning, or related built-environment disciplines
• Strong English communication skills
• Minimum 3 years of experience in architecture practice, interior design, urban design, design research, construction documentation, design review, visualization, teaching, or related professional work
• Strong understanding of Design Principles, Spatial Organization, Circulation, Scale & Proportion, Materiality, Accessibility, Sustainability, Building Systems, Construction Logic, and Design Communication
• Ability to identify impractical layouts, accessibility gaps, unsafe assumptions, weak design rationale, code-insensitive recommendations, and unrealistic construction guidance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, BIM Workflows, Adobe Creative Suite, Construction Drawings, Site Analysis, Rendering & Visualization, and Design Presentations
• Experience with AI Training, Data Annotation, LLM Evaluation, Design QA, Architectural Review, Visual Review, and Rubric-Based Evaluation

Why Join

• Help improve leading AI systems through architecture and design quality assurance
• Flexible remote schedule
• Weekly payments
• Access to future opportunities through SME Careers' expert network

Selection Process

1. AI Interview
2. Domain Assessment
3. Recruiter Interview

Important Note

There is currently no active project for this role. Qualified candidates will be added to the SME Careers expert network and contacted when architecture, interior design, urban design, or built-environment opportunities become available.