Architecture Lead, Read to Build

Higharc

Architecture Lead creating a design system for turn-key home plans at a startup. Collaborating closely with plan development specialists to ensure market-ready, code-compliant design solutions.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Unlimited PTO
Meaningful maternity/paternity leave for full-time U.S. based employees
Stipend to create the ideal home office

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Hard Skills & Tools

residential architecturehome designconstruction knowledgeparametric designcomputational designdesign system developmentmodeling best practicesautomationscalabilitydesign encoding

Soft Skills

collaborationsystems design mindsetdesign intuitiontechnical translationinterdisciplinary workproblem-solvingcreativityattention to detailcommunicationadaptability

Certifications

licensed architect