Architecture Lead, Ready to Build

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Expect to:
• Develop catalogs of rooms, groupings, and massings designed as reusable components with defined relationships, constraints, and configuration logic
• Establish the rules of assembly - what connects, what's constrained, what produces structurally sound and aesthetically coherent homes
• 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
• Help define a new programming language, in effect, for how homes are created
• About You
• You love homes. You understand intuitively what makes a floor plan work - how rooms relate to each other, how proportion and flow create livability, what separates a house from a home. That intuition is real and hard-won, and it's what makes this role possible.
• You have:
• Experience in residential architecture with hands-on home design and construction knowledge
• A systems design mindset - you're drawn to designing the rules, not just applying them
• Comfort at the intersection of design and technology, and enthusiasm for encoding design decisions into software
• Experience with parametric design tools and computational approaches
• A licensed architect credential
• Strong collaboration instincts - you can work across disciplines and translate between design intuition and technical constraints
• A major plus if you also bring:
• Experience with catalog housing, plan libraries, or product-line residential design
• Exposure to prefab, modular, or mass-customization housing approaches
• Familiarity with BIM platforms and computational design tools like Grasshopper or Dynamo
• Working at Higharc
• 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.

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