Brainco
Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 56 days ago
DatabricksMachine LearningAccessibilityProduct ManagementProject ManagementProcess ImprovementPatient CareCommunication
About the role
- This is not a traditional production review role where your main job is to clear a queue of permits.
- 80% permitting, plan review, code interpretation, and application review
Responsibilities
- Answer nuanced permitting and code interpretation questions from engineering, product, and design teams
- Help create internal review rubrics, checklists, documentation, and benchmark examples
- Occasionally support customer conversations, product discovery, onboarding, or GTM work as a domain expert
- 5+ years of hands-on plan review, plans examination, code consulting, private provider, building official, or permitting experience across multiple jurisdictions
Requirements
- ICC Certified Plans Examiner (CPE) credential is required
- Experience reviewing across multiple jurisdictions, states, municipalities, or private provider environments
- 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
- Ability to explain technical code and permitting issues clearly to engineers, product managers, designers, and non-experts
- Comfort reviewing AI/software-generated outputs and giving direct, specific feedback
- 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
Benefits
- Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work
Company info
- Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
- Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
- ABOUT BRAIN CO.
- 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.
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