Website:
maqa.am
Job details:
Junior Architect (Mid Career) — Hyderabad (Full-Time, On-Site)
About Maqam
Founded in 2024, Maqam is a spatial design practice that responds to the particularities of place. Our work grows out of research, uncovering the embedded knowledge, skills, materials, and stories that shape each context. From these, we develop new architectural languages that are both metabolic and adaptive, rooted in tradition yet tuned to the present.
The Role
We're looking for a Junior Architect, 2 or more years of experience, to join our studio in Hyderabad. This is a role with real responsibility, not assisting on a project, but helping run one. You'll work across design development, site coordination and execution, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and material studies, alongside guiding junior team members as the studio grows. We're looking for someone ready to own outcomes, not just tasks.
Who We're Looking For
We're less interested in where you've worked, and more in how you think, and how much of a project you're ready to actually carry. You're someone who:
- approaches architecture as a way of questioning and understanding the world
- has real experience seeing a project through, not just contributing pieces of it
- is curious about materials, making, and the systems behind them
- can think critically yet work hands-on, and guide others while doing so
- communicates clearly and collaborates generously, but more importantly, kindly
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related field
- Proficiency in Rhino, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite (Revit/Grasshopper a plus)
- 2 or more years of relevant experience, with a portfolio showing genuine ownership over past work
- Strong conceptual and graphic communication skills
Compensation & Work Culture
We believe architecture should value both the intellect and the labour it demands. Compensation for this role runs ₹45,000 to ₹55,000 per month, based on your portfolio and evidence of real project ownership, not years of experience alone.
It's a six day week, split into two distinct kinds of work. Monday to Friday, 9 to 6, is commissioned project work, client driven design and delivery, flexible around your commitments as long as you communicate ahead. Saturday, 10 to 6, is kept for something different: growth, craft, and exposure beyond your own project (more on that below). We don't micromanage either day. We hire people with initiative and trust them with real responsibility early, not as something earned later. That trust runs both ways, when deadlines get unreasonable, whether the pressure comes from a client, a consultant, or anyone else, we push back. That's ours to carry, not yours to absorb quietly.
Respect, here, runs in a specific order. First, respect for yourself and your own goals. Then your commitment to the studio. Then your colleagues. Then the studio as an institution. A studio works best when the people in it show up wholeheartedly, and are well taken care of in return.
Growth & Studio Culture
At Maqam, growth is personal, defined by each individual and supported by the studio. Whether your curiosity leans toward design, materials, technology, or eventually running a studio of your own, we build pathways for it through workshops, mentorship, cross-project exposure, and responsibilities tailored to where you're headed. At this level, that often means more say in how a project takes shape, not less.
Saturdays, 10 to 6, are kept for a different kind of work. Craft workshops, model-making, visits to projects that aren't your own if you're curious what someone else at the studio is building, or your own personal work, using our resources. We also try to make room for film screenings, reading sessions, and informal discussions, ways of thinking together beyond the desk.
How to Apply
Send your portfolio, CV, and a short note about what draws you to Maqam to careers@maqa.am. Your CV and portfolio are how we place you within the compensation range and understand your fit, so please include both, and don't hold back on showing us projects where you genuinely took the lead.
We're building a small, thoughtful team that sees architecture not just as a profession but as a way of thinking and caring for the world.
Click on Apply to know more.
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