Higharc

Architecture Lead, Ready to Build

Remote (United States) · Mid · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 53 days ago

Design SystemsCollaborationBIM

About the role

Join a founding team who've shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple.
That intuition is real and hard-won, and it's what makes this role possible.

This role sits at the intersection of residential architecture, systems thinking, and product design.
You're not here to design individual homes - you're here to design the system that produces them.
That means developing a composable "kit of parts": catalogs of rooms, room groupings, and massings that function as reusable building blocks, assembled according to rules you define.
Together, you'll translate that knowledge into structured, repeatable frameworks - design decisions encoded into software that can power homes at scale.
You don't need to be a software engineer, but you should be excited about what it means for design logic to live inside a platform.
This is genuinely new territory. You'll be defining a design discipline that doesn't fully exist yet, which means there will be ambiguity. The opportunity is to shape it.
Develop catalogs of rooms, groupings, and massings designed as reusable components with defined relationships, constraints, and configuration logic
Translate deep residential design intuition into structured, repeatable patterns that can be systematized
Partner with plan development leads to ensure the design system produces homes that are buildable, code-compliant, and market-ready
Contribute to standard details, design guidelines, and modeling best practices that support automation and scalability

Experience with parametric design tools and computational approaches
You'll work closely with plan development specialists who bring deep knowledge of builder needs, code compliance, and market dynamics.

Experience with catalog housing, plan libraries, or product-line residential design
Exposure to prefab, modular, or mass-customization housing approaches

Establish the rules of assembly - what connects, what's constrained, what produces structurally sound and aesthetically coherent homes
Help define a new programming language, in effect, for how homes are created

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 an accomplished Architecture Lead to build the design system that will power a new line of turn-key home plans for small- and mid-sized builders across the country.
Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built.
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.

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