Applied AI Engineer
- Salary
- $175K - $250K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · New York
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 14 March 2026.
About the role
PermitFlow's standard text
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.
PermitFlow's standard text
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's standard text
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.
What this role asks for
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Compared with PermitFlow's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 7 open in Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in February: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (4 of 7), Python (3 of 7), Data Warehousing (2 of 7), dbt (2 of 7), JavaScript (2 of 7), Node.js (2 of 7), PostgreSQL (2 of 7)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Analytics Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Analytics Engineer posted Oct 23
- Principal Software Engineer, AI posted Oct 13
- Applied Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 9
- Staff Software Engineer posted Mar 2
- Software Engineer posted Feb 21
From the team and dates on PermitFlow's own job board.
Salary context
44 other open postings titled Applied AI Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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