Computer Vision, Applied Research Scientist

Boon
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 3-7 yearsSkills: ["PyTorch","YOLO","SAM","DINO","Vision transformers","Multimodal","Computer vision"]

Lead end-to-end research and production work on Boon’s foundation model for construction drawings. Design and evaluate multi-stage vision architectures, perform self-supervised pretraining and supervised fine-tuning, and ship production models into the inference pipeline—bridging research with real-world applications in construction AI.

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Computer Vision, Applied Research Scientist

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end research and production work on Boon’s foundation model for construction drawings. Design and evaluate multi-stage vision architectures, perform self-supervised pretraining and supervised fine-tuning, and ship production models into the inference pipeline—bridging research with real-world applications in construction AI.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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
Experience:3-7 yearsConstruction AIComputer visionMultimodal
Skills:PyTorchYOLOSAMDINOVision transformersMultimodalComputer vision
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchYOLOSAMDINOVision transformers

Company Brief

Boon
Boon builds an AI agent platform for commercial fleets and logistics providers that automates workflows such as load sourcing, data entry, compliance, and fuel optimization, integrating with existing TMS/ERPs to increase efficiency and revenue.
Industry: Supply Chain Technology
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2023
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