Prototype Engineer
Higharc
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and develop tools that expose AI/ML capabilities to autonomous agents
- Take proven research outputs and integrate them into the Higharc product as packages and components
- Work across the Python ML/AI service layer and the TypeScript/React product
- Build frameworks for rapid evaluation, iteration, and promotion of prototypes
- Operate in lock-step with the broader engineering organization and participate in customer-facing labs sessions
- Serve as the primary translation layer between the research team and the product engineering team
- Convert experimental notebooks, fine-tuned models, and RAG pipelines into maintainable, testable, deployable code
- Develop working knowledge of the homebuilding domain sufficient to make independent judgment calls about which capabilities matter
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional Software Engineering experience
- 2+ years integrating ML/AI capabilities into production products
- Shipped AI-powered features to real users, not just model training
- Experience working in or adjacent to a research team
- Professional proficiency with Python, Typescript/React, API design, LLM tooling, evaluation design, and AI calibration
- Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source), vector databases, RAG architectures, Python ML ecosystem (PyTorch, HuggingFace), modern frontend frameworks (React/Next.js), CI/CD and testing frameworks
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- unlimited PTO
- meaningful maternity/paternity leave
- 401K
- stipend to create the ideal home office
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptReactAPI designML/AI integrationLLM toolingevaluation designAI calibrationPyTorchHuggingFace
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationindependent judgmentiterationprototyping