Project Assistant

SARASOTA ELECTRIC LLC • Sarasota, FL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

ForgePlan is an in-house software effort by Holliday Group, LLC, aiming to revolutionize the way construction drawings are reviewed. Currently, drawings are reviewed manually, page by page, using highlighters. ForgePlan seeks to build a system that can read flattened architectural PDFs, identify rooms, walls, fixtures, and labels, and provide code-compliant MEP overlay guidance. The computer vision layer is identified as the most challenging part of this problem, and this internship is focused on that aspect.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in, or recently completed, a degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrable ability
• Working experience with Python and at least one computer vision or deep learning library (OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-image, or similar)
• Comfort with image processing and geometry fundamentals: convolution, thresholding, contours, transforms, coordinate systems
• Experience with version control (Git) and the habit of writing code someone else can read
• Able to work on-site in Sarasota, Florida for the majority of the term
• Genuine curiosity about a messy, unglamorous domain — the data here is scanned, rotated, inconsistently labeled, and occasionally hand-marked

Nice To Haves

• Coursework, research, or projects in document understanding, OCR, layout analysis, or table/form extraction
• Exposure to PDF internals (vector content streams, text layers) via PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, pdfium, or similar
• Familiarity with C# / .NET, or a willingness to learn it
• Experience building annotation or evaluation tooling, not just consuming datasets
• Any exposure to architecture, engineering, or construction — CAD, Revit, BIM, or having simply read a set of plans
• A public portfolio: GitHub, a paper, a Kaggle result, a project writeup

Responsibilities

• Take at least one piece of the ForgePlan vision pipeline from 'sort of works on a good scan' to 'we trust it on a live job set'. This could involve symbol detection, wall and room extraction, text and dimension OCR, or the evaluation harness.
• Own a component of the ForgePlan system.
• Defend accuracy numbers for developed components.
• Contribute to a system that will be used by licensed professionals.

Benefits

• Paid internship — hourly rate of [$RATE]/hour, commensurate with experience and level of study
• Full-time schedule, [TERM LENGTH] term beginning [START DATE]
• Hybrid flexibility after onboarding
• Direct access to the founder and to licensed contractors, superintendents, and project managers
• Real production data and a real user base
• Consideration for a full-time offer for interns who ship

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed