# PermitFlow — Applied AI Engineer

- Generated: 2026-09-02 09:34:05 AM EDT
- Original/canonical posting: https://wellfound.com/jobs/3933982-applied-ai-engineer
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- Posting time: 6 months ago Job Location New York City Hires remotely in United States Visa Sponsorship Not Available Relocation Allowed About the job PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how . Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country. Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence. As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization. We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins , Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation. Role Overview As an Applied AI Engineer, you will design and deploy the AI agents that power PermitFlow’s pre-construction platform. You will own the full lifecycle of intelligent agents—from model development to orchestration, productionization, and evaluation—while contributing to core platform engineering. What You’ll Do Develop and deploy AI agents that automate permitting workflows end-to-end Orchestrate multiple models and tools to create reliable, multi-step AI systems Build the internal tools and infrastructure that power and monitor these agents Design and implement backend and frontend services, APIs, and data pipelines, integrating AI functionality into user-facing features when needed Contribute to system architecture and core platform design with the engineering team Design and maintain a suite of evaluations and benchmarks to measure agent accuracy, reliability, and cost-effectiveness Optimize inference pipelines and backend systems for speed, scalability, and cost What We’re Looking For 3+ years in software or ML engineering post-BS/MS Hands-on experience shipping production AI/ML systems or AI-powered products Experience building multi-step ML systems, pipelines, or agentic workflows Strong backend and API development skills, with some frontend experience Track record of building reliable products with attention to quality and detail Startup grit and comfort in fast-moving, evolving environments What We Offer Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company 100% company-paid base medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees + healthcare FSA 401(k) savings plan Unlimited PTO and paid family leave Home office & equipment stipend Daily in-office lunch and dinner provided Commuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking) PermitFlow provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or family status, as protected by applicable law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. Apply Now About the company PermitFlow Actively Hiring Construction's AI Workforce 51-200 Employees New York City 51-200 Software Development Real Estate Construction B2B Growth Stage Expanding market presence Top Investors This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors YC Funded Startup funded by Y Combinator Growing fast Showed strong hiring growth in the past month Employees joined from Amazon Angi On Deck LeadGenius Dropbox DocSend Learn more about PermitFlow Funding AMOUNT RAISED $90.5M FUNDED OVER 3 rounds Rounds B $54000000 Series B - Dec 2025 + 2 View PermitFlow 's funding history Similar Jobs Enigma Technologies Enigma provides trusted business data built on unparalleled entity resolution Senior Software Engineer, API and Data Delivery $180k – $295k Apply Shef Authentic dishes. Homemade. Delivered. Explore who's cooking in your neighborhood Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack $150k – $170k Apply Decorilla (We're Hiring!) 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- Applicants: Not disclosed
- Work model/location: Provider badge says Remote (US), but the JD explicitly requires NYC hybrid attendance 3 days per week and prefers NYC-based or relocation; the explicit conflict controls.; provider location: See normalized description/header
- Compensation: $175K-$250K plus equity; qualifies.
- Travel: Not disclosed.
- Positioning track: Technical IC
- Fit outcome: FAIL — 80.0%

## Direct-match strengths

Direct production agentic-AI, full-stack AWS, orchestration, startup, and platform-architecture match.

## Hard or material gaps

Hard NYC hybrid/relocation conflict; material down-level/overqualification risk; production eval-suite and inference-optimization evidence is limited.

## Evidence map

1. Production AI agents (w3/e3): AssistX shipped 70+ automations across 20+ workflows.
2. Multi-model/tool orchestration (w3/e3): LangGraph, LangChain, multi-agent systems, and multiple frontier/open models.
3. Backend APIs/data pipelines (w3/e3): Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/PGVector, REST APIs, and AWS pipelines.
4. Frontend contribution (w2/e2): Streamlit, HTML/CSS, and full-stack AssistX; less modern JavaScript evidence.
5. Evals/benchmarks (w3/e1): Governance/evaluation knowledge, but AssistX eval framework was roadmap work.
6. Inference optimization (w2/e1): LLM cost controls and scalable AWS architecture, but little quantified inference optimization.
7. Platform architecture (w2/e3): Reusable multi-tenant AI platform built from concept through production.
8. Startup execution (w2/e3): Technical founder, 8-month launch, and recruited/led 11 engineers.

## Full normalized job description

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding
what can be built, where, and how
. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.
Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.
As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.
We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our
Series B,
from top-tier investors including Accel,
Kleiner Perkins
, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.
Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.
Role Overview
As an Applied AI Engineer, you will design and deploy the AI agents that power PermitFlow’s pre-construction platform. You will own the full lifecycle of intelligent agents—from model development to orchestration, productionization, and evaluation—while contributing to core platform engineering.
What You’ll Do
Develop and deploy AI agents that automate permitting workflows end-to-end
Orchestrate multiple models and tools to create reliable, multi-step AI systems
Build the internal tools and infrastructure that power and monitor these agents
Design and implement backend and frontend services, APIs, and data pipelines, integrating AI functionality into user-facing features when needed
Contribute to system architecture and core platform design with the engineering team
Design and maintain a suite of evaluations and benchmarks to measure agent accuracy, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
Optimize inference pipelines and backend systems for speed, scalability, and cost
What We’re Looking For
3+ years in software or ML engineering post-BS/MS
Hands-on experience shipping production AI/ML systems or AI-powered products
Experience building multi-step ML systems, pipelines, or agentic workflows
Strong backend and API development skills, with some frontend experience
Track record of building reliable products with attention to quality and detail
Startup grit and comfort in fast-moving, evolving environments
What We Offer
Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
100% company-paid base medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees + healthcare FSA
401(k) savings plan
Unlimited PTO and paid family leave
Home office & equipment stipend
Daily in-office lunch and dinner provided
Commuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking)
PermitFlow provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or family status, as protected by applicable law.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

## Artifact metadata

- Resume and cover letter: Not generated under the fit gate.
- Archived JD capture: https://files.keithsteward.com/PermitFlow/Keith_Steward_applied-ai-engineer_3933982_JD_capture.md
- Google Drive used: No