Computer Vision Research Engineer

Position

Overview

Bobyard solves non-trivial CV problems that move millions of dollars. Contractors burn dozens of hours per project doing takeoffs by hand. We automate it — with models that have to be better than human, on messy real-world drawings.

You’ll have founder-level autonomy to design, execute, and iterate. We move at startup speed — no research silos, no “publish and forget.” You’ll become the world’s leading expert on the models you ship. We want world-class ML engineers with product taste and the ability to go heads down and produce exceptional systems.

Responsibilities

• Build SOTA CV models: Detect, segment, OCR, and reason over construction drawings. Accuracy isn’t academic — one mistake costs a customer millions. -
• Own end-to-end pipelines: Data ingestion, labeling, training, eval, and low-latency inference. If it doesn’t run in prod, it doesn’t count. - Scale performance: Accuracy, robustness, latency. Our models face 10,000+ drawing formats and they need to just work. - Ship to production:
• Work closely with fullstack and product to integrate models into features customers use daily. No throwaway notebooks. - Attack failure modes: Dig into real customer data. Find where we break, why we break, and fix it fast. -
• Apply research pragmatically: Stay current with the field. Take what works, ship it next week, measure impact. Desired Attributes - Founder-level drive: You own model performance like it’s your company. No one tells you what to fix — you already know. -
• Deep CV + DL chops: You’ve trained models that actually shipped. Segmentation, detection, document AI, vision-language — you’ve been in the trenches. - Production killer: You’ve put ML into real products with real SLAs. You know the gap between 90% and 99.9% and how to close it. - Messy data mindset: Real drawings are crooked, scanned, handwritten, and ugly. You love that. You turn noise into signal. -
• Research-minded, execution-focused: You read papers, but you ship code. You bias to impact over elegance. - Startup work ethic: This isn’t a research lab or a cushy big-tech role. We’re at war with manual takeoffs in a $13T industry. You want that. - Learning machine: New architecture on Monday, beating our baseline by Friday. You navigate unknown problem spaces fast. This is full-time & in-person in the SF Bay Area. Learning rate and dedication beat pedigree. If you can prove you’ll ship models our customers trust with million-dollar bids — at the speed and quality the market demands — we want you. Comp Philosophy We pay to win. Bobyard targets competitive top-of-market compensation because we hire people who ship and drive real impact — and we aim to reward that, including through variable pay tied to performance. Individual compensation is determined by role, experience, and contribution, at Bobyard's discretion.