Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work embedded with a large production homebuilder to turn unstructured plan libraries into structured, queryable data. You will build searchable plan libraries, analytics dashboards, and AI capabilities to identify and translate floorplans.

What you will do

• Run technical discovery by profiling plan assets and assessing data quality
• Build and ship searchable plan libraries, analytics dashboards, and natural-language search
• Tune and extend Autotranslate AI capabilities to identify and translate floorplans
• Write ETL and build against internal APIs
• Build geometric similarity scoring and classification models
• Meet delivery milestones including coverage targets and QA error thresholds
• Instrument and quantify results like redundancy and consolidation candidates
• Partner with product, technical, QA, and client strategy teams
• Present technical progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders
• Turn one-off scripts and data patterns into reusable tooling

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including significant time in customer-facing or deployed settings
• Strong hands-on data fluency: SQL, scripting against APIs, and comfort in notebooks
• Experience prototyping to validate ideas quickly using tools like Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev
• Track record building structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes in production
• Strong judgment about data quality
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time

Nice to have

• Background in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology
• Experience with agent-based or natural-language search over structured data, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics
• Exposure to geometric or spatial data such as CAD/BIM, computer vision, similarity and clustering methods
• Experience working with large, messy, enterprise-scale data migrations or ingestion programs
• Having built a function from zero

Benefits

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