Machine Learning Engineer

The role

You will build and ship machine learning models that understand homes. You will own problems end to end by framing tasks, training and evaluating models, and serving them within latency and cost budgets.

What you will do

• Build the component layer around the layout synthesis engine
• Turn model retraining into a one-command job with built-in benchmarks
• Own the latency and cost budgets for learned capabilities
• Extend core research into new capabilities like multi-story plans and real-time editing
• Partner with infrastructure engineers on MLOps and deployment
• Mentor researchers and interns on engineering practices
• Share work in writing through weekly status updates, pull requests, and design notes

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software development
• At least two years training and shipping machine learning models to real users
• Has carried at least one model end to end from data preparation through integration
• Fluent in Python
• Has worked with geometric or structured data such as floor plans, CAD or BIM, graphs, or 2D and 3D geometry
• Has built or maintained an evaluation harness or benchmark
• Has packaged a model behind an API and been accountable for its latency and cost
• Comfortable working remotely with a team on US Eastern hours
• Master's degree in computer science, machine learning or a related field, or equivalent shipped work

Nice to have

• PyTorch preferred
• An architecture or building background, whether a degree, practice, or AEC software work
• Experience with constraint solvers such as OR-Tools CP-SAT or with optimization more broadly
• Generative models for layouts or floor plans specifically
• Plugin or tooling work in Rhino, Grasshopper or Revit
• Hugging Face ecosystem, experiment tracking, and cloud model serving on AWS or Modal
• Publications or open source contributions

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with significant equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time
• Short and long-term disability plans
• 401K
• Stipend to create the ideal home office
• Support ongoing L&D

About the company

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. The founding team has shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple.