AI Systems Engineering Manager - Agentic Infrastructure

PermitFlow

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

100% Health, dental & vision coverage

Company issued laptop

Home office & equipment stipend

Lunch & Dinner via UberEats

Commuter benefits

Team building events

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

PermitFlow seeks an Engineering Manager, AI to lead and scale our AI infrastructure and evaluation systems. You will own both people leadership and technical execution for systems deciding if an AI agent can submit permits autonomously, or requires human in the loop.

You will drive the roadmap end-to-end from technical direction through delivery, achieving measurable accuracy and reliability gains in production.

Qualifications

5+ years in software engineering, including 1+ year in engineering leadership.
Strong system design and architecture fundamentals.
Experience with AI/ML workflows, eval design, and governance.
Excellent collaboration and communication with product and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the engineering team building PermitFlow’s AI infrastructure and evaluation systems.
Own the technical roadmap from direction to delivery with measurable impact.
Define reliability, observability, and performance goals for the AI stack.
Own architecture behind workflow agents: orchestration, model serving, latency, cost, and failure handling.
Hire and mentor engineers, shaping the next generation of AI systems leaders.