Abstract: Adopting beam-column joint energy dissipation devices is an effective approach to achieve the seismic design of "prescribed yielding mechanism." There is currently a lack of optimal placement methods for these devices that balance both efficiency and practicality. This paper systematically investigates a highly efficient optimal placement method for beam-column joint energy dissipation dampers. Based on the working mechanism of dampers, the damper placement efficiency coefficient is constructed to quantify the rationality of the layout. An elastic hinge static iteration method is proposed, which can rapidly calculate the strain energy change rate of beam-column joints to obtain the damper placement efficiency coefficient. Utilizing a fabricated low-yield-point energy-dissipating link damper device as the core energy dissipation component, and taking an actual engineering project as the background, a non-damped structure and three traditional damped schemes are designed. Through dynamic elasto-plastic time-history analysis under rare and extremely rare earthquakes, key indicators such as the inter-story drift ratio, story shear, floor acceleration, and additional damping ratio of each scheme are compared. The results demonstrate that the scheme obtained by the proposed method yields an optimal comprehensive performance, successfully achieving the design goal of structural "prescribed yielding mechanism." Multiple groups of schemes are selected for seismic resilience evaluation. The results indicate that the resilience grades of the damped structures are consistently higher than those of the non-damped structure, and the scheme corresponding to the proposed method outperforms traditional design schemes across all resilience indicators. This verifies the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed seismic energy dissipation design method.