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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Computer Vision Applied Research Scientist - **Company:** Boon Company, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $114,000.0 - $144,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Open Source Technology, Salesforce.Com, Tableau (Software), Pytorch, Deep Learning, Kaggle, Data Analytics, Servicenow - **Published:** August 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/boon/2570bca0-033a-4c72-8ad9-d45227bfdde7 ## About the Role * You have 7+ years of computer vision research experience, ideally with a track record of published papers, open-source work, or production CV models * You have deep hands-on experience with multi-modal/vision transformers - segmentation, detection, or joint text+vision tasks * You have worked with modern vision transformer architectures like SAM, DINO, or similar foundation vision models * You can move from a research idea to a trained model to a production-shipped system with minimal hand-holding * You think about experiments rigorously - clean baselines, meaningful ablations, honest evaluation on real data * You have a point of view on architecture decisions and can defend it with reasoning and experimental evidence * You thrive on autonomy and set your own direction while staying aligned with team goals * You communicate clearly in English (written and verbal) and can collaborate during California business hours, * 3-7+ years in computer vision research (industry research lab, applied science team, PhD research + industry, or equivalent) * Strong track record of published CV research OR trained production CV models that shipped at scale * Hands-on expertise in multi-modal dense prediction (segmentation, detection, or joint vision-language tasks) * Production experience with modern vision transformer backbones (SAM, DINOv2/v3, CLIP, SigLIP, or similar) * Strong PyTorch fluency and experience training large vision models * Ability to move models from research to production inference pipelines * Strong fundamentals in deep learning: optimization, loss design, regularization, self-supervised learning * Fluency in English (written and verbal) Nice to Have * Experience with Graph Neural Networks or relational reasoning architectures (we do not expect this - most CV researchers do not - but it is a meaningful plus) * Experience with text spotting, OCR, or scene text detection integrated with vision models * Experience with LoRA, adapters, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large vision models * Experience with self-supervised pretraining (MAE, DINO, or similar) * Experience with engineering/technical drawings, document understanding, or layout analysis * Contributions to open-source CV research * Published papers at top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR) ## Description Remote Hiring Remotely in United States Mid level Remote Hiring Remotely in United States Mid level As a Computer Vision Applied Research Scientist, you'll design novel architectures for understanding construction drawings, conduct end-to-end experiments, and transition models to production. You'll collaborate with others to improve accuracy and address real-world issues in AI applications for construction. The summary above was generated by AI About Boon Boon is the professional AI platform built specifically for construction. Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2023 by product and engineering leaders from Samsara, Apple, Google and DoorDash. Boon is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Our AI agents embed directly into existing workflows, from preconstruction estimating to bid management. They automate the repetitive tasks that drain time and margins while surfacing the insights leaders need to make faster and more confident decisions. The result is measurable impact. Teams move faster, bids are submitted sooner, win rates increase, and costs are reduced. Boon enables construction companies to build more, generate more revenue, and grow with confidence. About the Role We are building the first foundation model for construction drawings - a unified multi-modal vision system that reads, understands, and reasons about architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural plans the way a human estimator does. As a Computer Vision Applied Research Scientist at Boon, you will own end-to-end experiments on our foundation model, from architecture design through self-supervised pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and shipping production models into our inference pipeline. This is a 80/20 research-to-production role. You will propose new architectures, run the experiments that prove or disprove them, and ship the winning models to real customers. You will have autonomy over direction and experimental ideas, staying aligned with the team and the company's research focus. This is not a role for someone who wants to be told what to build. What Success Looks Like Within your first 12-18 months, the successful candidate will: * Push our production model to 95% accuracy across multiple trades and scopes * Design a genre-defining, novel architecture for construction drawing understanding * Publish a paper on the work at a top venue (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, or ICLR). We're committed to publishing; we may selectively not release weights or code What You Will DoResearch & Architecture * Design and evaluate novel multi-stage vision architectures for construction drawing understanding - perception, text-object association, and relational reasoning across elements * Drive architecture decisions: backbones, decoders, fusion strategies, loss functions, training regimes * Run rigorous experiments with clean baselines, ablations, and held-out evaluation on real construction drawings * Own supervised training and self-supervised pretraining strategies * Pursue research directions that compound accuracy across trades and scopes Production Shipping * Take models from experimental notebooks to the production inference pipeline * Work hands-on with PyTorch, YOLO, SAM, DINO, and other modern CV stacks * Collaborate with ML engineers on deployment, quantization, and serving * Debug real failures on real customer drawings and close the loop into the next training run Cross-Functional Work * Collaborate with the synthetic data, annotation, and infrastructure teams to make sure experiments have the data and compute they need * Partner with engineering leadership on the accuracy roadmap and strategic direction * Write clean internal research reports so the broader team can learn from your work * Present findings, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineering leadership Data & Evaluation * Help shape what data we acquire and annotate, based on what the model actually needs * Define evaluation datasets and metrics that track progress honestly - not Kaggle-style leaderboard chasing * Identify failure modes on real customer drawings and design experiments that address them, In-Office or Remote Mid level Mid level Information Technology * Internet of Things * Mobile * On-Demand * Software Monitor advanced physical security systems, maintain situational awareness, initiate and coordinate security incidents, document actions in a case management system, support security personnel during incidents, and prepare reports for leadership and external stakeholders. 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