Who We Are
We’re a collaborative group of visionaries and creators.
We are not your traditional IT team. We explore how to apply technology to complex problems involving people, behaviors and the built world.

We are not your traditional IT team. We explore how to apply technology to complex problems involving people, behaviors and the built world.
i/o Leader
Visionary
Goal-Setter
Mentor
Autodidact
Design Builder
Reality Mixer
Spime Wrangler
Team Lead
Dev & Project Manager
UI Engineer
Plant / Dog / Toddler Mom
Software Engineer
Designer at Heart
Experimenter & Explorer
Former Architect
Web Developer
Open-Source Proponent
Amateur Photographer
AI-AEC-passionate Technologist
Creative Computational Expert
Aspiring Super User
Data Scientist
Ideation Machine
Technology Enthusiast
Industry Disruptor
i/o is a subset of Perkins&Will, a global architecture firm focused on creating healthy, sustainable places in which to live, learn, work, play and heal. We focus on researching and developing technologies that help architects, planners, and engineers solve some of today’s biggest challenges in the built environment.
i/o is also funded by The Dar Group, a global professional services consultancy focused on planning, design, engineering and project management. Dar Goup’s vision is to provide the best engineering and design solutions to clients globally. We focus on augmenting these solutions through a digital lens.
Interested in working with us? Check out some of our current job openings, or just drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for a Software Engineering Lead who can lead our development team by example. You’ll help architect and build applications, hold code reviews, and define the team’s long-term goals. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building scalable, production-ready applications using common SDLC methodologies. You should have solid analytical skills and a strong sense of code integrity and organization. You’ll also be a mentor to members of the team, helping to build discipline around our workflows and practices. With your experience, you’ll advise on estimates and deadlines, guide the development process, and help the team move projects across the finish line.
Our engineering team develops predominantly in React/Redux, Node.js, and TypeScript, using MongoDB/Postgres and AWS on the infrastructure side. We’ve recently moved to a new tech stack, so you’ll have the ability to influence our existing frameworks and architecture. As the team lead you’ll have a comprehensive view into the people, technologies, and practices of the firm. With this knowledge, you’ll support the skills and accomplishments of your team members and foster an open, inclusive environment that motivates people to do their best work.
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We are seeking a talented Software Engineer in our Chicago lab who can work closely with our designers and developers to build scalable, production-ready applications. You should have solid analytical skills and a strong sense of code integrity and organization. Candidates must also have in-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle with a focus on React, Node.js, Typescript, and build tools/tooling.
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Our Chicago lab is looking for a Senior UI Designer to create elegant and intuitive user experiences. Candidates must have a keen eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and functional user interfaces. Our Senior UI Designer will also be working closely with our product teams, users, and development team in an agile and interactive design-focused environment.
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We are looking for a UI Designer to help create elegant and intuitive user experiences. Candidates must have a keen eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level UX and business requirements into interaction flows and functional user interfaces. Our UI Designer will be working closely with our UX, product, and development teams in an agile and interactive design-focused environment.
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We are looking for a UX Designer who can make sense of complex workflows and turn them into intuitive user experiences. Candidates will have the opportunity to research and design innovative digital apps within the AEC and built environment. You will be working closely with our users, ideation teams, developers, and creatives to bring your design strategy and interfaces to life. The ideal candidate will have an appetite for next-generation user experience design within the fields of geospatial technology, AR/VR, machine learning, and business intelligence.
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We are looking for a UX design intern to work closely with our design and development teams. You will have the opportunity to research spatial and digital products that will be used by our clients and employees. We are seeking candidates with strong design backgrounds and the ability to create intuitive, intelligent, and enriching user experiences.
The ideal candidate can make sense of complex workflows and turn them into elegant, intuitively designed solutions. Our interns work closely with our designers to bring innovative and creative design ideas to the table.
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Our Insights Team is looking for a Creative Coder to rapidly deploy working prototypes for a broad range of computational solutions using modern technologies. We prioritize speed as a way to experiment with our POCs quickly, but our prototypes are built on the premise of scalability. An ideal candidate should understand the balance between speed and development. You should be able to wield the same tech stack as our scale-oriented engineering team, but also have a long list of libraries, platforms, and technologies in your wheelhouse to turn to for rapid prototyping. Bonus points if your experience has crossed over into physical computing, robotics, or IoT.
Qualified candidates should possess strong time management skills and have experience completing working protoypes and projects for other employers/clients. Keep in mind: ‘creative’ is in the job title for a reason. Point us to your portfolio - we’d love to see some novel uses of code and innovative perspectives on everyday problems.
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Our Architects and designers are the best at designing the built environment. We share many of the same tools with 3D Game Artists, but simply aren’t the wizards of those appropriated tools. We need real 3D artists, who can move from concept to performant low polygon representations, while maintaining the unique characteristics of the intended designs. Artists who can work alongside Architects/strategists, and who can own the production of quality digital assets for a range of experiences and use-cases.
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Are you thrilled by the prospects of having lidar built into our mobile devices? Can you
create interactive user experiences that leverage computer vision? Do you have a technical
position on metaverse interoperability? Do you know why division is bad, pointer operations
good, and cool things to use the dot product for? We are looking for Unreal or Unity Engine
devs with experience working on real projects, to develop AR/VR/Metaverse applications
with our designers and artists, for a broad range of clients. The position will be split
between the advancement of platforms and client specific projects.
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At Perkins & Will we believe that inclusion spurs creativity, and that innovation is born from an engaged culture of diverse people + ideas. By moving beyond barriers and stereotypes of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status; we are committed to building an organization that reflects the diversity of the communities and clients we serve.
We are a digital startup studio funded by Perkins&Will and Dar Group, focused on building spatial intelligence and experience solutions for our stakeholders and clients.