Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer Company: Higharc Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 14:42:11 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AutoCAD, CAD, Computer Vision, ETL, Embedded Systems, LLM, Product Management, RAG, SQL About the job Experience: •5+ years of engineering experience, including significant time in customer-facing or deployed settings — forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or professional services Required Skills: •This role is for someone who wants to build against real, messy data in front of the customer, not two abstractions removed from it. •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 Qualifications: •You know the difference between a demo and a deliverable, and you build the one the situation actually calls for. •Strong hands-on data fluency: SQL, scripting against APIs, comfort in notebooks, and a habit of interrogating a data set yourself rather than requesting a pull •A track record building structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes and getting a system to actually run on them in production •Strong judgment about data quality — what level of accuracy a decision requires, and what it costs to get there •Excellent written and verbal communication, including with executive stakeholders who have limited time and no patience for status without substance •Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time •Background in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology — especially fluency with plan sets, elevations, options, and how builders manage plan variation •Exposure to geometric or spatial data — CAD/BIM, computer vision on drawings, similarity and clustering methods •Having built a function from zero: first hire into a new team, new practice, or new delivery model Compensation: •Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!