What is a Research Scientist at Plangrid?
As a Research Scientist at Plangrid, you will sit at the intersection of cutting-edge machine learning and real-world physical infrastructure. Plangrid is dedicated to bringing unprecedented efficiency to the construction industry by digitizing and organizing blueprints, sheets, and documents. In this role, your primary mission is to build the intelligent systems that transform static, complex, and highly detailed construction documents into rich, interactive, and searchable spatial databases.
Your work will directly power core features such as automatic sheet hyperlinking, optical character recognition (OCR) for handwritten or stylized text, and symbol detection across millions of high-resolution blueprints. The algorithms you research, design, and implement will help field workers access critical information in milliseconds, reducing costly construction errors and saving thousands of hours of manual labor. This is not just theoretical research; your discoveries will be productionized and deployed at a massive scale.
What makes this position unique is the complexity of the data you will work with. Construction blueprints are dense, multi-layered vector and raster documents that push standard computer vision and layout analysis models to their limits. You will have the opportunity to solve highly specialized spatial reasoning, document understanding, and pattern recognition problems that few other companies face, making this an incredibly rewarding environment for a scientist who loves practical, high-impact challenges.



