Office Boy, Emil Schacht, Architect, Portland, OR, 1900; Architect, Emil Schacht, Architect, Portland, OR, c. 1909; Partner, Emil Schacht and Son, Architects, Portland, OR, 1910-1915; Pacific Coast Manager of West Coast Office, Foundation Company of New York, San Francisco, CA, 1925-1929; (Schacht began working for the Foundation Company in 1917, working for it and himself between 1917-1929.) Partner, Schacht and Bergen, Architects, Portland, OR, 1924-1925; Principal, Martin Schacht, Architect, Portland, OR, 1929-1932. Schacht retired in 1932 and died the next year due to poor health.

Member, Portland Architectural Club; Member, American Institute of Architects, Oregon Chapter; Director, American Institute of Architects, Oregon Chapter, 1921; Member, Arlington Club, Portland, OR;

For the Foundation Company of New York, Schacht worked on the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge (later known as the San Mateo - Hayward Bridge) completed in 1929. This was the longest bridge in the world at the time of its completion.