Boon is the intelligence layer for construction — an AI estimator that reads full plan-and-spec sets, catches conflicts, runs takeoffs, and levels bids. Backed by Redpoint.
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.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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.
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...
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