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Building Physics Engineer (all genders)GROPYUS · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Building Physics Engineer (all genders)

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-10 Vienna, Vienna, Austria Hybrid Engineering
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 3,500 EUR–5,500 EUR/mo

About the Company

GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with a wide range of design options, automated offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company is able to create resilient timber housing quickly and cost-effectively. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, strengthen Europe's innovation capacity, and play a substantial role in improving sustainability. The company delivers its multi-family houses as a complete and turnkey solution. The combination of technology, construction, robotics, and manufacturing expertise means buildings can be created in a fully digitalized end-to-end process. The building system is based on versatile wall and slab elements, making it easier to optimize land use, customize plans, and build fast with both off-site construction and on-site assembly. This system is complemented by the Building Operating System-developed in-house.

About the Role

As a Building Physics Engineer, you will play a key role in the development, assessment, and optimization of our building system from a building physics perspective. You will ensure that building physics requirements are considered at an early stage and implemented in a technically sound, cost-effective, and compliant manner. Working closely with Design Engineering, Planning, Production, and other specialist departments, you will actively contribute to the further development of system solutions, standards, and technical details.

Responsibilities

  • ● Develop and optimize the building system with a focus on thermal building physics
  • ● Perform and evaluate thermal, moisture, and hygrothermal calculations, verifications, and simulations
  • ● Develop and assess building physics construction details and building component assemblies
  • ● Ensure compliance with relevant standards, guidelines, and regulatory requirements
  • ● Provide technical guidance to Planning, Design Engineering, and Production on building physics matters
  • ● Further develop standards, system solutions, and building physics concepts to improve energy efficiency

Requirements

  • ● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Building Physics, Civil Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline
  • ● Proven professional experience in the field of thermal building physics
  • ● Strong expertise in thermal insulation, moisture protection, and energy-efficient building design
  • ● Solid knowledge of relevant standards, guidelines, and building physics calculation and simulation methods
  • ● Proficiency with Hottgenroth, Psi-Therm, and WUFI
  • ● Strong communication skills and enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration with Planning, Design Engineering, and Production teams
  • ● Fluent German language skills, both written and spoken
  • ● Experience in the development of building systems
  • ● Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken

Benefits

  • ● An unlimited, All-in contract with 25 vacation days.
  • ● Flexible work: We value regular in person collaboration in the office, while also offering working from home and the opportunity to work up to 40 days a year from abroad.
  • ● Attractive perks and benefits : We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
  • ● Virtual Shares Program : Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
  • ● Ownership : You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions - on all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
  • ● The chance to be part of something big : Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.
  • ● A diverse and enriching work environment : Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong - no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.