Brainco
Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert
1mo ago
USASeniorRemote
Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert role at Brainco serving as a domain expert for engineering, product, design, data, and go-to-market teams.
Responsibilities
- We are hiring a Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert to serve as a full-time domain expert for our engineering, product, design, data, and go-to-market teams.
- This is not a traditional production review role where your main job is to clear a queue of permits. Instead, you will help Brain Co. understand how real permit reviewers make decisions, interpret building codes, evaluate applications, and handle edge cases across jurisdictions.
- The role is roughly:
- 80% permitting, plan review, code interpretation, and application review 20% product, project management, documentation, and GTM support
Requirements
- ICC Certified Plans Examiner (CPE) credential is required
- 5+ years of hands-on plan review, plans examination, code consulting, private provider, building official, or permitting experience across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience reviewing across multiple jurisdictions, states, municipalities, or private provider environments; candidates with experience limited to a single city or jurisdiction are unlikely to be a fit for this role
- Working fluency in the IBC, IRC, and at least one state building code overlay; Florida Building Code experience is a plus
- Ability to independently read full plan sets, including architectural, civil, and structural drawings, and identify what is missing, why it is missing, and what a reviewer would likely flag
- Ability to articulate code logic in a structured way, including check name, threshold or trigger, code citation, local amendment, and review outcome
- Strong understanding of how building codes are applied in real-world permitting and plan review workflows
- Experience reviewing permit applications, construction documents, plan sets, and submittal packages
- Understanding of both sides of the desk: what architects, builders, and applicants submit during feasibility or intake, and what reviewers look for when determining completeness, compliance, and approval readiness
- Ability to explain technical code and permitting issues clearly to engineers, product managers, designers, and non-experts
- Strong judgment about what matters in a real review and what typically triggers comments, revisions, rejection, or escalation
- Comfort reviewing AI/software-generated outputs and giving direct, specific feedback
- Strong written communication and documentation skills
Nice to have
- Experience in California, Florida, Texas, or other high-volume permitting markets
- Experience reviewing residential, commercial, tenant improvement, solar, EV charger, MEP, accessibility, zoning, or structural permits
- Experience managing reviewers, creating SOPs, or supporting permitting process improvement
- PE, RA, CASp, or similar professional credentials
- Experience supporting product, software, data labeling, AI evaluation, or workflow automation efforts
Other
- Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy.
- We are building AI applications for the world’s most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.
- Our progress so far:
- Automated construction permitting for a sovereign government → 80% faster, unlocking $375M+ in value
- Optimized supply chains for a leading global energy company → 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, preventing $100M+ in losses
- Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work
- Company momentum:
- Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
- Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
- At Brain Co., we focus on applying frontier AI to real institutional challenges, working alongside governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries to modernize how essential services operate.
- We are looking for leaders who want to help bring new technology into institutions that impact millions of people.
- Answer nuanced permitting and code interpretation questions from engineering, product, and design teams
- Review permit applications, plan sets, submittals, and AI outputs to identify what is correct, incorrect, missing, or ambiguous
- Help define what a real reviewer would approve, reject, or send back for revisions
- Label applications and review examples to help train and evaluate our ML systems
- Synthesize jurisdiction-specific requirements, local amendments, and reviewer practices into clear internal guidance
- Speak with other SMEs, reviewers, or jurisdiction contacts when needed to understand local practices
- Help create internal review rubrics, checklists, documentation, and benchmark examples
- Occasionally support customer conversations, product discovery, onboarding, or GTM work as a domain expert
- If you’re excited about helping modernize government and bringing frontier AI into the public sector, we’d love to hear from you.