Applied AI Engineer

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.

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.

- 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

- 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