Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors: industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Embed with HQ, regional, and division teams to run technical discovery — profile plan assets, assess data quality, and reverse-engineer how each division's drawing sets encode variation
• Build and ship the searchable plan library, analytics dashboard, 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
• Work hands-on with the data — write the ETL, build against internal APIs, and ship working capability back to users directly rather than handing off a spec
• Build geometric similarity scoring and classification models that surface plans which have forked under different names
• Meet delivery milestones — coverage targets, data-field completeness, QA error thresholds — and flag tradeoffs in real time when schedule pressure argues against them
• Instrument and quantify results: redundancy across a catalog, dimensional spread on repeated conditions, consolidation candidates, and the purchasing leverage each one represents
• Partner with the Forward Deployed Product Manager, Technical Lead, QA, Intake Specialists, and Client Strategy, and present technical progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders
• Build the repeatable version — turn one-off scripts and data patterns into reusable tooling that lets the forward deployed model work on the next engagement, not just the current one
• Travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time

Requirements

• You're happiest closest to the customer, and you've learned that the fastest path to the right answer is usually to go build it and see