Higharc

Forward Deployed Engineer

Higharc
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7 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with homebuilder headquarters, regional, and division teams to conduct technical discovery and assess plan data quality.
  • Build and ship plan ingestion pipelines, searchable plan libraries, analytics dashboards, and agent-enabled natural-language search.
  • Tune and extend Higharc’s Autotranslate AI capabilities to identify, categorize, and translate floorplans into structured data.
  • Write ETL, work with internal APIs, and deliver working capabilities directly to users.
  • Build geometric similarity scoring and classification models to identify plan variations and consolidation opportunities.
  • Measure data quality, catalog redundancy, dimensional variation, consolidation candidates, and purchasing leverage.
  • Track delivery milestones and communicate tradeoffs and technical progress to executive stakeholders.
  • Create reusable tooling and patterns for future forward-deployed engagements.
  • Travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering experience, including significant customer-facing or deployed work such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or professional services.
  • Strong hands-on data fluency with SQL, API scripting, notebooks, and direct dataset investigation.
  • Experience rapidly prototyping with tools such as Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev.
  • Track record building structured data models, taxonomies, or classification systems and running them in production.
  • Strong judgment about data quality, accuracy requirements, and delivery tradeoffs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communication with executive stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.
  • Preferred: experience in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology.
  • Preferred: experience with agent-based or natural-language search, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics.
  • Preferred: exposure to geometric or spatial data, CAD/BIM, computer vision on drawings, similarity methods, or clustering methods.
  • Preferred: experience with large, messy enterprise-scale data migrations or ingestion programs.
  • Preferred: experience founding a new team, practice, or delivery model.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with regular in-person company meet-ups and asynchronous collaboration.
  • Competitive salary and significant equity.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time U.S.-based employees.
  • Flexible PTO and meaningful maternity/paternity leave.
  • Short- and long-term disability plans and a 401(k).
  • Home-office setup stipend and ongoing learning and development support.
  • Travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

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About Higharc

201-500 employees

Higharc builds a Homebuilding Cloud platform used by production homebuilders to design, estimate, sell, and manage construction. Its SaaS suite includes Studio, a browser-based 2D/3D design tool that drives estimating, showrooms, and construction documents across a single data model. Founded in 2018, the privately held, US-remote company is VC-backed and focuses on residential builders and community developers.

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