Prototype 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 a total of $83M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.
Higharc is seeking a Prototyping Engineer to join our rapidly growing Special Projects team. In this role, you'll take foundational AI/ML research and integrate new capabilities into the Higharc platform.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Operating in lock-step with our broader engineering organization, this engineer will test prototypes with customers, evaluate results, and promote proven capabilities to the full product. Expect to:
- Design and develop tools that expose AI/ML capabilities to autonomous agents, building the orchestration layer that solves complex domain use-cases in production homebuilding.
- Take proven research outputs and integrate them into the Higharc product as packages and components, following best practices established in a large, complex codebase.
- Work across the Python ML/AI service layer and the TypeScript/React product, wiring new capabilities end-to-end via API.
- Build frameworks for rapid evaluation, iteration, and promotion of prototypes.
- Operate in lock-step with the broader engineering organization and participate in customer-facing labs sessions, using direct customer signal to validate prototypes and inform iteration priorities.
- Serve as the primary translation layer between the research team and the product engineering team.
- Convert experimental notebooks, fine-tuned models, and RAG pipelines into maintainable, testable, deployable code.
- Develop working knowledge of the homebuilding domain sufficient to make independent judgment calls about which capabilities matter, which edge-cases are load-bearing, and where AI falls shor...