Founding Research Scientist, Computer Vision (PhD)

### **About**

Rudus is an AI-powered takeoff platform for structural and site concrete. We accelerate concrete takeoffs by 70%+ with AI trained specifically on structural and civil drawings- counting, measuring, and reading sheets so estimators can focus on winning bids.

### **The Role**

You'll own the research behind our drawing-understanding stack: detecting structural and site elements on noisy real-world plan sets, pattern-matching footings and curb runs, interpreting schedules and cross-sheet details, and comparing drawing revisions. Your models ship into production and get evaluated by professional estimators on real bids — feedback loops measured in days, not review cycles.

### **What You’ll Do**

* Advance detection and autocomplete models for structural elements (footings, slabs, columns, walls) and site elements (curbs, paving, sidewalks, joint layouts) * Build document-understanding systems for schedules, specs, and section details, including cross-sheet reasoning * Solve geometry problems: auto-scale detection, boundary completion, smart exclusions, revision diffing * Design training and eval pipelines on customer drawing data, improving accuracy project over project

### **What We’re Looking For**

* PhD (or equivalent research experience) in computer vision, ML, or a related field * Track record turning research into working systems- strong Python required * Experience with document AI, object detection, vectorized/CAD-like data, or multimodal LLMs * Excited by messy real-world data over benchmark leaderboards