How to Apply to Cyrela

9 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 59 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Cyrela uses Gupy at cyrela.gupy.io; a single Gupy profile applies to Cyrela, Living, and Vivaz vagas in parallel.
  • Brand and segment matter: Cyrela = high-end / luxury, Living = mid-market, Vivaz = MCMV economic, Cyrela Roya = ultra-premium. Apply to the brand that matches your experience.
  • Engenheiro Civil and Arquiteto roles require active CREA or CAU registration listed prominently in your currículo.
  • Currículo and interviews are in Portuguese; English is only tested when the vaga explicitly requires it.
  • The 2024-2025 Selic rate cuts pushed launch volumes to cycle peaks, expanding hiring in Engenharia de Obra, Vendas, and Crédito Imobiliário in particular.
  • Direct hire is for technical, commercial, and corporate roles. Canteiro de obras workers are contracted through terceirizadas, not hired directly by Cyrela.
  • Family ownership remains strong: Elie Horn is Chairman, Raphael Horn is on the board, and CEO Rafael Novellino took over in 2024 — bring genuine respect for that long-term orientation to your interviews.

About Cyrela

Cyrela Brazil Realty (B3: CYRE3) is the largest publicly-listed homebuilder and incorporadora in Brazil, headquartered in São Paulo and operating across the country's most important real-estate markets: Greater São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Salvador, Recife, and Florianópolis. Founded in 1962 by Israeli-born Brazilian entrepreneur Elie Horn, the company grew from a small São Paulo construction business into a multi-brand residential developer with roughly 3,500 direct employees, hundreds of joint-venture partners, and tens of thousands of jobsite workers contracted through terceirizadas (third-party construction firms). Elie Horn remains active as Chairman and a major shareholder; he is widely known both for his prominence in the Brazilian-Israeli Jewish community and for his philanthropy through Instituto Cyrela. In 2024 the company completed an executive transition: Rafael Novellino succeeded Raphael Horn (the founder's son, who stepped into a board role) as CEO, signaling a generational shift in day-to-day leadership while keeping family ownership intact. Cyrela operates through a portfolio of brands aimed at distinct income tiers. The flagship Cyrela brand serves the high-end and luxury segment, with signature towers in São Paulo neighborhoods such as Vila Olímpia, Itaim Bibi, Pinheiros, and Vila Mariana, plus beachfront and resort developments in the Northeast and South. Living covers the medium and medium-upper market for first-time buyers stepping up from rentals. Vivaz delivers economic units inside the federal Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program, with subsidized financing through Caixa Econômica Federal. Cyrela Roya (the rebrand of the former premium-launch line) targets the bespoke ultra-premium niche. Beyond the wholly-owned brands, Cyrela operates a network of joint ventures: Plano&Plano (economic, listed separately as PLPL3), Goldfarb (mid-segment in São Paulo), Lavvi (high-end, also publicly listed as LAVV3), and Tegra (mid and high in Greater São Paulo), among others. The hiring environment in 2025 and into 2026 is shaped by Brazilian monetary policy. After Selic rate cuts beginning in 2024 and continuing through 2025, mortgage origination accelerated and Cyrela's launch volumes (VGV — Valor Geral de Vendas) reached cycle-peak levels. That has expanded headcount in three areas in particular: jobsite engineering (Engenharia de Obra), sales (Vendas / corretores próprios at Cyrela Vendas) and mortgage credit origination (Crédito Imobiliário). Real-estate cycles are well-understood inside the company, which means recruiters value candidates who can speak honestly about working through both up-cycles and corrections.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Open the careers portal at cyrela

    Open the careers portal at cyrela.gupy.io (the carreiras.cyrela.com.br domain redirects to the same Gupy site). Filter by marca (Cyrela, Living, Vivaz, Cyrela Roya, Cyrela Vendas), by cidade, and by área (Engenharia, Arquitetura, Vendas, Crédito, Marketing, TI, Jurídico, RH, Financeiro).

  2. 2
    Create a Gupy candidate profile using your CPF and a personal email

    Create a Gupy candidate profile using your CPF and a personal email — Gupy uses the same login across all participating Brazilian employers, so a single profile lets you apply to Cyrela, Living, and Vivaz vagas in parallel.

  3. 3
    Complete the perfil completo on Gupy: anos de experiência, formação (graduação,

    Complete the perfil completo on Gupy: anos de experiência, formação (graduação, pós, MBA), idiomas (Português nativo plus English level — beginner / intermediate / advanced / fluent), CREA or CAU registration number for Engenheiros Civis and Arquitetos, and PCD status if applicable (Cyrela maintains active vagas afirmativas for PCD, women in construction, and racial diversity).

  4. 4
    Upload a one or two page Portuguese-language currículo as PDF

    Upload a one or two page Portuguese-language currículo as PDF. Gupy's parser reads PDF text reliably; avoid image-based CVs, multi-column designs that confuse the extractor, and protected files.

  5. 5
    Answer the perguntas eliminatórias (knockout questions) honestly

    Answer the perguntas eliminatórias (knockout questions) honestly. Common ones include CNH category, willingness to work em obra (jobsite) versus escritório (corporate office in Vila Olímpia), pretensão salarial, and notice period at current employer.

  6. 6
    Complete the testes comportamentais and any technical assessment Gupy assigns

    Complete the testes comportamentais and any technical assessment Gupy assigns. Cyrela frequently uses behavioral profile tests (DISC-style) and, for engineering roles, basic technical screens covering NBR norms, MS Project, and AutoCAD.

  7. 7
    If you advance, expect an initial recruiter screen by phone or Google Meet (entr

    If you advance, expect an initial recruiter screen by phone or Google Meet (entrevista com RH), followed by a technical interview with the gestor da área and, for senior roles, a final conversation with a diretor.

  8. 8
    Final-stage candidates receive a proposta with salário, benefícios (Unimed healt

    Final-stage candidates receive a proposta with salário, benefícios (Unimed health, Bradesco Dental, vale-refeição via Flash or Alelo, vale-transporte, PLR participation, Gympass, life insurance) and a start date. Background and reference checks (consulta a antecedentes) are run before the formal admissão under CLT (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho).

Resume Tips for Cyrela

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Write your currículo in Portuguese unless the vaga is explicitly bilingual or in

Write your currículo in Portuguese unless the vaga is explicitly bilingual or international. A resume in English alone signals you didn't read the job posting.

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List your CREA-SP / CREA-RJ number for Engenheiro Civil roles or your CAU number

List your CREA-SP / CREA-RJ number for Engenheiro Civil roles or your CAU number for Arquiteto roles in the header. Without an active registration the system filters you out.

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Quantify in metros quadrados, número de unidades, VGV (R$), prazo (meses), and e

Quantify in metros quadrados, número de unidades, VGV (R$), prazo (meses), and equipe (número de pessoas geridas). Recruiters scan for scale: '40.000 m² entregues, 380 unidades, VGV R$ 220 milhões' beats vague descriptions every time.

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Name the brands and ATSs you've worked with explicitly: SAP, SIENGE, Autodoc, Vo

Name the brands and ATSs you've worked with explicitly: SAP, SIENGE, Autodoc, Volare, MEGA Construção, AutoCAD, Revit, MS Project, Primavera P6. Cyrela runs a SAP-centric backbone and Sienge for jobsite controls.

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For Vendas roles, list your CRECI number, segments worked (alto padrão / médio /

For Vendas roles, list your CRECI number, segments worked (alto padrão / médio / econômico / MCMV), and concrete VGV figures. Top corretores at Cyrela Vendas regularly cite individual VGV vendido in the millions per year.

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For Crédito roles, list the bancos and FIDCs you've originated through (Caixa, I

For Crédito roles, list the bancos and FIDCs you've originated through (Caixa, Itaú, Bradesco, Santander, Inter, Sicredi) and your conversion rates from análise to assinatura.

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Mention NBR norms relevant to your area (NBR 6118 estruturas de concreto, NBR 90

Mention NBR norms relevant to your area (NBR 6118 estruturas de concreto, NBR 9050 acessibilidade, NBR 15575 desempenho de edificações) in a Conhecimentos Técnicos section — Gupy's keyword match favors this.

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Include any selo or certificação (Aqua-HQE, LEED, Selo Casa Azul Caixa, GBC Bras

Include any selo or certificação (Aqua-HQE, LEED, Selo Casa Azul Caixa, GBC Brasil) — Cyrela's premium product lines actively pursue sustainability certifications and recruit for them.

ATS System: Gupy

Cyrela uses Gupy, the dominant Brazilian recruiting platform (used by more than 3,500 Brazilian employers including Magazine Luiza, Itaú, Vivo, Ambev, and most large incorporadoras). The portal lives at cyrela.gupy.io and shares a single candidate identity with every other Gupy-powered employer. Gupy combines a structured Applicant Tracking System with an AI ranking layer (Gaia) that scores candidate-to-vaga fit based on resume parsing, perguntas eliminatórias, and behavioral test results.

  • Submit a single-column PDF currículo so Gupy's parser extracts your dados pessoais, formação, experiência profissional, and competências cleanly. Tabelas, ícones, and design templates from Canva often break extraction.
  • Fill out 100% of the perfil on Gupy itself, not just the uploaded PDF. Gaia's ranking weights structured profile fields (formação, idiomas, anos de experiência) heavily and many auto-rejections come from incomplete profiles, not weak resumes.
  • Answer perguntas eliminatórias honestly. Lying about CNH, disponibilidade para viagens, or pretensão salarial gets caught at the entrevista stage and burns the candidate-recruiter relationship for any future Cyrela vaga.
  • Use exact keywords from the descrição da vaga in your resume. Gupy's matching is literal — write 'Engenheiro Civil de Planejamento' if that's the title, not 'planning engineer' or 'engenheiro de obra'.
  • Reapply to genuinely different vagas, not the same one repeatedly. Gupy tracks application history per candidato per vaga and reapplications to the same posting within the cooling-off window are downranked.
  • Set up alertas de vagas inside Gupy and follow Cyrela's profile — new postings often fill within 7 to 14 days at the recruiter-screen stage, so being early matters.

Interview Culture

Cyrela's interview style reflects a stable, family-controlled Brazilian construction culture: formal but warm, technically rigorous, and very focused on alinhamento with the company's long-term values. Expect a multi-stage process that almost always includes a recruiter screen (RH), a technical conversation with the gestor direto, a panel or one-on-one with the diretor da área for mid-senior roles, and — for liderança positions — a final fit conversation that may include a member of the family or executive committee. Conversations are conducted in Portuguese; English is tested only for roles that explicitly require it (typically corporate finance, investor relations, or supply-chain functions sourcing imported materials). Behavioral questions follow a STAR format and tend to probe how you handled prazo (deadline) pressure, conflicts with empreiteiros (contractors) or fornecedores, safety incidents on canteiro, and ethical dilemmas around custos and qualidade. Technical interviews for Engenharia roles dig into NBR norms, planejamento de obra (Primavera or MS Project), orçamento and curva-S, and quality control during entrega de unidades. Vendas interviews include role-play with simulated clients and a deep dive into your pipeline mathematics. Cyrela values humility — candidates who oversell themselves or speak dismissively of past employers tend to be filtered out. Dress is business casual for office interviews and helmet-and-boots ready if you're invited to visit a canteiro de obras during the process. Decisions typically take two to four weeks for non-urgent vagas and can move in a single week for jobsite roles when a project is launching. Compensation negotiation happens at the proposta stage and is firm but not aggressive — recruiters expect a single counter, not protracted back-and-forth. After acceptance, onboarding (integração) takes place at the Faria Lima sede or at the relevant regional office and includes mandatory NR-6 (EPI) and NR-18 (segurança em construção) safety training before any canteiro visit.

What Cyrela Looks For

  • Formação sólida — Engenheiro Civil from a recognized university (USP, Mackenzie, FEI, Poli, UFRJ, UFRGS, UFPE, UFBA) with active CREA registration, or Arquiteto with CAU.
  • Experience inside an incorporadora or construtora of comparable scale — MRV, Tenda, Direcional, EZ Tec, Even, Eztec, Trisul, Mitre, JHSF, Helbor, Tecnisa, Lavvi, Plano&Plano, Goldfarb, Tegra, or peer publicly-listed names.
  • Familiarity with the SAP plus Sienge plus AutoCAD plus Revit plus MS Project / Primavera toolkit that Cyrela standardizes on.
  • Comfort with both canteiro (jobsite) and escritório (corporate) environments, including willingness to relocate within Brazil for project assignments.
  • Working knowledge of NBR 15575 (desempenho), NBR 9050 (acessibilidade), and the regulatory frameworks for ITBI, Habite-se, and Caixa-financed MCMV units.
  • For Vendas — proven VGV vendido, active CRECI, and experience with the relevant segment (alto padrão for Cyrela, médio for Living, econômico/MCMV for Vivaz).
  • For Crédito — direct relationships with Caixa, Itaú, Bradesco, Santander, and Inter mortgage desks, plus comfort with FGTS rules and SBPE financing limits.
  • Cultural fit on Cyrela's stated values — paixão pelo cliente, integridade, espírito de dono, simplicidade, excelência — communicated authentically rather than recited.

Frequently Asked Questions

Qual ATS a Cyrela usa?
Cyrela uses Gupy. The careers portal lives at cyrela.gupy.io and the marketing alias carreiras.cyrela.com.br points to the same Gupy site. A single Gupy candidate profile lets you apply across Cyrela, Living, Vivaz, Cyrela Roya, and Cyrela Vendas vagas, plus thousands of other Brazilian employers that use Gupy.
Preciso falar inglês para trabalhar na Cyrela?
Generally no. Cyrela operates entirely in Brazil, sells primarily to Brazilian buyers, and conducts internal communication in Portuguese. English is tested only for specific roles such as Investor Relations (since CYRE3 has international shareholders), Tesouraria, parts of Suprimentos that source imported finishing materials, and certain corporate Finance positions.
What is the difference between the Cyrela, Living, and Vivaz brands when applying?
Cyrela is the high-end and luxury brand — large units, premium finishes, prime locations in São Paulo, Rio, and resort markets. Living serves middle and upper-middle income buyers — typically first or second purchase. Vivaz handles Minha Casa Minha Vida economic units financed by Caixa Econômica Federal under federal subsidy programs. Apply to the brand that matches your direct prior experience; recruiters cross-reference this carefully.
Cyrela contrata diretamente os trabalhadores do canteiro de obras?
No. Following the standard Brazilian construction industry model, Cyrela directly employs engineers, architects, planners, quality and safety leads, and corporate staff, while the actual canteiro workforce (pedreiros, carpinteiros, armadores, eletricistas, encanadores) is contracted through terceirizadas — specialized subcontractor firms. Those workers are typically organized through the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores nas Indústrias da Construção Civil de São Paulo and equivalents in other states.
How does the 2024-2025 mortgage cycle affect hiring at Cyrela?
Selic rate cuts that began in 2024 reduced mortgage costs and accelerated Caixa, Itaú, Bradesco, and Santander origination volumes. Cyrela's launch pipeline (VGV) reached cycle-peak levels, expanding headcount needs in Engenharia de Obra (to staff active jobsites), Vendas (to convert demand), and Crédito Imobiliário (to originate and close mortgages). Real-estate professionals who can articulate experience across both up-cycles and corrections are valued — Brazilian real estate is openly cyclical and recruiters appreciate candidates who acknowledge that.
Onde fica a sede da Cyrela e quais cidades têm vagas?
The corporate sede is on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima in Itaim Bibi, São Paulo, with most corporate functions concentrated there. Field-and-jobsite vagas are open across Greater São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Salvador, Recife, Florianópolis, and select secondary cities depending on the active development pipeline at any given moment. Filter by cidade on Gupy to see what's currently posted.
Quais documentos preciso ter em mãos para o cadastro na Gupy?
CPF and RG, comprovante de endereço, currículo em PDF in Portuguese, your CREA registration (for engenheiros) or CAU registration (for arquitetos), CRECI for Vendas, CNH if the vaga requires field travel, comprovantes de escolaridade (diploma de graduação and any pós), and PCD documentation if applicable. Have these scanned and ready before starting an application — Gupy will request uploads at multiple stages.
Quais empresas competem com a Cyrela por talento?
MRV Engenharia and Tenda (in the MCMV / economic segment competing with Vivaz), Direcional, EZ Tec, Even, Eztec, Trisul, Mitre, Tecnisa, Helbor, JHSF, plus Cyrela's own joint-venture partners Lavvi (LAVV3), Plano&Plano (PLPL3), Goldfarb, and Tegra. The Brazilian publicly-listed homebuilder talent pool circulates between these players, so prior experience at any of them is recognized and respected.
Como funciona a remuneração e participação nos lucros?
Cyrela follows the Brazilian CLT model with carteira assinada, 13º salário, férias plus 1/3, FGTS, and INSS. Compensation includes base salary plus benefits (Unimed health, Bradesco Dental, vale-refeição via Flash or Alelo, vale-transporte, Gympass, life insurance) plus PLR (Participação nos Lucros e Resultados) tied to corporate and individual targets. Expect base pay that is competitive within Brazilian construction but modest compared to investment banking — a well-understood trade-off in the Brazilian market.
Cyrela tem programa de estágio ou trainee?
Yes. Cyrela runs an annual Programa Trainee for early-career talent (typically recém-formados or up to two years out of graduation) covering rotations across Engenharia, Vendas, Marketing, Financeiro, and Tecnologia. The Programa de Estágio recruits university students in their penultimate or final year. Both programs run through Gupy and are advertised on cyrela.gupy.io as well as on Cyrela's LinkedIn careers page when intake windows open.

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