Higharc

Research Engineer

• Build the component layer around the layout synthesis engine, including a documented API contract, callable service, and evaluation gate
• Turn model retraining into a one-command job with built-in benchmarks and readable team results
• Own latency and cost budgets for learned capabilities
• Extend core research into capabilities such as multi-story plans and real-time editing
• Partner with infrastructure engineers on MLOps and deployment
• Mentor researchers and interns on engineering practices
• Communicate work through weekly status updates, clear pull requests, and design notes
• Ship spatial AI research capabilities into Higharc's home-design and construction product
• Improve the existing engine, schema, and evaluation frameworks for speed, reproducibility, and extensibility

Applied Research Engineer

Engineer

• Join Higharc's founding Forward Deployed team
• Work embedded alongside a large production homebuilder to turn plans into actionable data
• Embed with HQ, regional, and division teams for technical discovery
• Profile plan assets, assess data quality, and reverse-engineer how drawing sets encode variation
• Build and ship searchable plan libraries, analytics dashboards, and agent-enabled natural-language search
• Own the pipeline from raw plan ingestion through structured, queryable output
• Tune and extend Higharc's Autotranslate AI capabilities to identify, categorize, and translate floorplans into data
• Write ETL, build against internal APIs, and ship working capabilities directly to users
• Build geometric similarity scoring and classification models
• Meet delivery milestones, coverage targets, data-field completeness, and QA error thresholds
• Instrument and quantify catalog redundancy, dimensional spread, consolidation candidates, and purchasing leverage
• Partner with Product, Technical Lead, QA, Intake Specialists, and Client Strategy
• Present technical progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders
• Turn one-off scripts and data patterns into reusable tooling for future engagements
• Travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time

Forward Deployed Engineer

Product Designer

• Lead the technical architecture and delivery of the Home Design Experience application
• Report to the VP of Engineering and serve as the primary technical partner to the product/UX lead
• Rapidly prototype home design workflows and turn successful concepts into customer-ready software
• Lead interactive 3D home design workflows connecting UI, design data, and real-time 3D scenes
• Build AI-supported and agentic interactions for home design
• Own application architecture and technical delivery from prototypes through production
• Make decisions across frontend, application state, and service integration, including performance, reliability, and testing
• Translate ambiguous goals into implementation plans and resolve technical unknowns through working code
• Partner with the platform team to use, improve, implement, and document shared application foundations
• Help less experienced engineers through pairing, code review, and technical guidance

Applied Research Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

Software Engineer, Home Design Experience