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OXMAN

OXMAN is a hybrid Design and R&D company that fuses design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments. We reject the human-centric design paradigms that have divorced us from Nature, and instead pursue a Nature-centric approach—delivering solutions by, for, and with the natural world. We design across scales for systems-level impact, treating every construct as a whole system of complex interrelations rather than an isolated object.

Role Overview

OXMAN seeks a Computational Designer to advance our work around Textile Design and Hybrid Living Materials. This person sits at the intersection of computational design, textile engineering, and synthetic biology, developing the algorithmic processes, predictive models, and automated fabrication systems through which living and engineered matter are woven together. They are fluent in code and at home in at least one of textile craft or biological reasoning—and curious enough to work across all both, treating computation as a language for mediating between digital design intent, material behavior, and biological agency.

The role spans three integrated levels: the computational design of textiles themselves; the modeling of biological behavior that plays on across those textiles; and the engineering and automation of the fabrication processes that produce them. We're looking for genuine depth in one or two, an appetite for the rest, and the instinct to translate between them.

Key Responsibilities

Build pipelines that translate computational designs into machine instructions.
Model and predict complex behavior—deformation, drape, stability, and structural response—for simulation and design optimization.
Develop mechanistic, dynamical, or data-driven models of biological processes (pattern formation, growth, multicellular signaling, genetic circuits).
Use computation to narrow large combinatorial possibility spaces.
Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, biologists, and designers, translating ideas and methods across domains.
Communicate work clearly through meetings, presentations, and creative outlets, and maintain a shared library of processes, models, and tools.

Preferred Experience

These are the three areas the role works across. Strong candidates will bring depth in one or more and the curiosity to engage with the others.

Computational textile design

Develop computational processes for knit and weave design, including parametric and generative methods for structure, pattern, and form.
Build pipelines for the translation of computational designs into machine instructions (knit programming, jacquard instruction sets), closing the gap between geometry and fabrication.

Computational Designer — Hybrid Living Textiles

Computational Designer — Hybrid Living Textiles

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