Environmental Planning Engineer, AI-Driven Infrastructure

Blumen; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blumen is building the regulatory intelligence layer for American infrastructure. We seek an environmental practitioner to help develop the AI-native version of environmental planning, evaluating real energy and infrastructure projects, researching unresolved environmental questions, and ensuring accurate outputs for customers.

You will review maps, regulations, agency sources, planning documents, and AI findings, correcting errors and filling gaps.

Qualifications

• Experience in environmental planning, permitting, natural resources, land use, environmental consulting, government, or infrastructure development.
• Ability to distinguish material project risk from generic database hits and explain next steps to investigators.
• Extremely hardworking, humble, detail oriented, and dependable under high volume.
• Experience with energy projects, critical issues analyses, permit matrices, NEPA or CEQA, GIS, or multidisciplinary site diligence is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate sites for environmental, land-use, and permitting risks.
• Produce and review critical issues analyses, permit assessments, and environmental screens.
• Research uncertain findings using authoritative regulatory, agency, planning, and project sources.
• Review AI-generated analysis closely and correct unsupported, incomplete, or misleading conclusions.
• Convert recurring project work into clearer methods, evaluation cases, and product requirements.

Job description

Blumen is building the regulatory intelligence layer for American infrastructure. We seek an environmental practitioner to help develop the AI-native version of environmental planning, evaluating real energy and infrastructure projects, researching unresolved environmental questions, and ensuring accurate outputs for customers.

You will review maps, regulations, agency sources, planning documents, and AI findings, correcting errors and filling gaps.