Remote Research Engineer, Spatial AI & 3D ML

Higharc; North Carolina; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (significant)

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible PTO

Maternity/Paternity leave

401(k)

Home office stipend

Job summary

Higharc is a VC-backed startup reinventing how homes are designed and built. We seek a Research Engineer to push spatial AI research at the intersection of RL, CV, LLMs, and 3D geometry for residential construction.

You'll design training pipelines, build multimodal data workflows, and contribute to deployable models integrated with the Higharc platform, partnering with prototyping engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with 2+ years in ML or LLM work in production.
• Experience with model training pipelines and domain-specific fine-tuning.
• Proficiency in Python; strong 3D/geometry or graphics background is a plus.
• Masters degree required; PhD strongly preferred for research focus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct foundational spatial AI research for residential construction.
• Design end-to-end LLM training and fine-tuning pipelines for construction domain.
• Apply CV to extract semantic structure from architectural inputs and build multimodal pipelines.
• Develop RL-based design methods and RAG systems grounded in knowledge bases.
• Define benchmarks and eval pipelines tied to homebuilding tasks; deliver ship-ready artifacts.

Skills

LLM development

Reinforcement learning

Computer vision

3D geometry

Python

React/TypeScript

Education

Master's degree in CS/ML/AI

Ph.D. (nice to have)

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace Transformers

Pinecone/Weaviate/pgvector

Three.js

Job description

Higharc is a VC-backed startup reinventing how homes are designed and built. We seek a Research Engineer to push spatial AI research at the intersection of RL, CV, LLMs, and 3D geometry for residential construction.

You'll design training pipelines, build multimodal data workflows, and contribute to deployable models integrated with the Higharc platform, partnering with prototyping engineers.