Research Engineer

You do your best work when you can go deep. You treat residential construction as a worthy and complex problem space, not a stepping stone to a more prestigious domain, and you bring the same intellectual honesty to negative results as to positive ones. You understand that research that never ships is indistinguishable from research that never happened.

You have:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years directly on LLM development, fine-tuning, or applied ML systems in production

Hands-on experience with model training frameworks (HuggingFace Transformers, PyTorch) and fine-tuning workflows on domain-specific corpora

Practical experience with RAG architectures, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), and embedding model selection

Experience with 3D modeling, computational geometry, or computer graphics in a research or production context

Strong proficiency in Python across the ML ecosystem; React/TypeScript proficiency for integration work

A Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a closely related field

A major plus if you also bring:

A Ph.D., particularly for candidates focused on model research and pre-training

Open-source contributions or published research

Familiarity with BIM tools (Revit, AutoCAD) or BIM data formats (IFC, gbXML)

Experience with Three.js or equivalent 3D frameworks

While we've identified the core experience and skills required above, please still apply if you have more or different experience than this! We will use your previous experience and performance across the series of interviews to establish appropriate level within our organization in a fair and equitable way.

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company. Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.