Engineering Manager, Building Generation

Role Overview

Engineering Manager for Higharc’s Building Generation (BDG) teams. You’ll lead one of two BDG engineering teams that own the generative model and the platform/API around it, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The role is remote within the US or Canada and coordinates closely with an EM in Europe.

What You’ll Do

• Lead planning and delivery across:
  • the generative model
  • the geometry pipeline
  • the BDG APIs that enable other internal teams (and eventually external partners)
• Partner with PMs early to:
  • scope PRDs
  • surface constraints and feasibility
  • assess technical trade-offs before ownership transfer
• Evaluate technical proposals from your team and route decisions appropriately (Director of Engineering / ARC depending on scope)
• Coordinate with the other BDG EM to keep direction, interfaces, and platform coherent across regions/teams
• Shape the contract between the building model and Higharc Studio interaction/rendering systems as the API surface matures
• Grow and mentor engineers; help attract computational geometry and CAD talent across North America
• Run an async-first, minimal-meeting team with clear ownership and high accountability

About You (Requirements)

• Deep career background in computational geometry and CAD, able to:
  • evaluate hard technical proposals
  • guide engineers through complex problems (even without writing the code yourself)
• Strong mental models for:
  • BReps
  • boolean operations
  • dependency graphs
• Experience building parametric systems where the model is the source of truth for downstream geometry/drawings/fabrication outputs, and keeping them robust at scale
• Ability to operate effectively in a distributed, async-first environment; strong collaboration with PMs
• Proficiency with modern AI-assisted development practices to increase team velocity

Nice-to-Haves / Additional Signals

• Background includes:
  • mesh processing and/or constraint solving
  • history graphs, dependency propagation, robust parametric/feature-based modeling
  • geometry kernels (commercial, open-source, or custom) with understanding of trade-offs
  • platform development and API design (versioning, performance, developer experience)

Minimum Experience

• 5+ years software engineering with significant time in CAD/CAM or computational geometry
• 2+ years managing technically deep engineering teams