Comment by Duanemclemore

Comment by Duanemclemore 3 days ago

Look at companies in the AEC sector. Pay is lower than straight tech, but a lot of exciting real world and applied problems to dig in to. All the fun stuff these days is computation and advanced fabrication based. Even something closer in application to the jobsite like building information modeling still has room to grow in terms of tech implementation.

Your skill set would be lucrative to a big construction or engineering firm and they pay well. Architecture firms solve the funnest problems, which is what you get in return for the lower pay.

an_aparallel a day ago

Agreed. Im in Aec and the amount of stuff i see ripe for swe to dig into is plenty. Youll need to convince directors youre worth it.

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Duanemclemore 18 hours ago

Take this with a grain of salt as I'm in academia now, outside everyday software implementation in AEC, but I think that's changed / changing. My background is in the profession, and I'm a self-taught computational designer. Before going academic I built a lot of tools for small architecture firms, implemented BIM workflows for them, etc. So I talked to but didn't work with the tech tooling people at large AE or C firms. That said any time I look at the kind of software and tools being built at those companies, it seems like they've become increasingly comfortable with needing relatively full stack development.
Just one of many examples is how EHDD's EPIC [0]was successful enough to spin out [1]. There are a lot of others.
[0] https://ehdd.com/philosophy/epic/
[1] https://epic.ehdd.com/

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- an_aparallel 11 hours ago
  
  Revit houses in medium sized firms are difficult nut to crack. Im sure tier ones have in housr swe's working on making revit less cumbersome.
  
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fdlaks a day ago

Any recommendations for companies?

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Duanemclemore 18 hours ago

Oh man ten years ago I would have had just a few firms to tell you about, but at this point you can probably just look at the top x architecture, engineering, and construction firms in your chosen geography and they'll have someone building fairly sophisticated software tools. I'd say the thing to do is look at who / what subsectors need people with your qualifications. For example, Building Information Modeling is built on databases, jobsite automation is built on controls and increasingly on streaming data, and environmental simulation on a wild grab bag making different platforms and interfaces talk to each other.
Good luck!!!

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