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Permitting & Plan Review Expert

Brain Co.· GTM
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RemoteFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Domain expert role focusing on permitting, plan review, and code interpretation to inform engineering, product, design, data, and GTM teams; combines deep regulatory knowledge with product and AI evaluation responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • ~5+ years of hands-on plan review, plans examination, code consulting, private provider, building official, or permitting experience
  • Working fluency in the IBC, IRC, and at least one state building code overlay
  • 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
  • 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

Skills

Required:Permitting and plan reviewBuilding codes (IBC, IRC)Plan set reading (architectural, civil, structural)

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly role with flexible collaboration
  • Opportunity to influence production deployments and AI evaluation in a regulated industry
  • Collaborative environment with team members from Palantir, Google, Meta, Nvidia backgrounds (as per company context)
  • Contribution to a new category of applied AI in government and public sector
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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