Permitting & Plan Review Expert

Brain Co.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Brain Co. is hiring a Permitting & Plan Review Expert to serve as a full-time domain expert for engineering, product, design, data, and GTM teams.

You will interpret building codes, review applications, and help train ML systems with jurisdiction-specific guidance. This role blends practical review work (80%) with product, project management, and documentation tasks (20%), requiring strong written communication and independent judgment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on plan review or permitting experience.
• Fluency in the IBC, IRC, and at least one state building code overlay.
• Ability to read full plan sets and identify what is missing or likely flagged.
• Ability to articulate code logic in a structured, clear way.

Responsibilities

• Answer nuanced permitting and code interpretation questions from teams.
• Review permit applications, plan sets, submittals, and AI outputs for accuracy.
• Define what a reviewer would approve, reject, or request revisions.
• Label applications and review examples to train ML systems.
• Synthesize jurisdiction-specific requirements into internal guidance.
• Communicate with SMEs or jurisdiction contacts to understand local practices.
• Create internal review rubrics, checklists, and documentation.
• Occasionally support customer conversations, product discovery, or GTM work.

Skills

Plan review expertise

Code interpretation

IBC/IRC knowledge

Documentation

Communication

Job description

Our Mission

Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.

About Brain Co.

Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.

Why Now

Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.

Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.

You’ll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you’ll still be proud of in ten years from now.

About the Role

We are hiring a Permitting & Plan Review Expert to serve as a full-time domain expert for our engineering, product, design, data, and go-to-market teams.

This is not a traditional production review role where your main job is to clear a queue of permits. Instead, you will help Brain Co. understand how real permit reviewers make decisions, interpret building codes, evaluate applications, and handle edge cases across jurisdictions.

The role is roughly:

80% permitting, plan review, code interpretation, and application review

20% product, project management, documentation, and GTM support

What You’ll Do

• 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

Who You Are

• ~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

Bonus Points For

• ICC Certified Plans Examiner (CPE) credential
• Experience reviewing across multiple jurisdictions, states, municipalities, or private provider environments
• Experience in California, Florida, Texas, or other high‑volume permitting markets
• Experience reviewing residential, commercial, zoning, or structural permits
• Experience managing reviewers, creating SOPs, or supporting permitting process improvement
• PE, RA, CASp, or similar professional credentials
• Experience supporting product, software, data labeling, AI evaluation, or workflow automation efforts

Join Us

If you’re excited about helping modernize government and bringing frontier AI into the public sector, we’d love to hear from you.