Principal AI Agent Engineer — Permit Automation (Production)

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shipped agent product at scale

Job summary

PermitFlow seeks an experienced engineer to design AI agents that read construction documents, extract project data, and file permit forms. You will own agent architecture, reasoning loops, and evaluation systems to ensure reliable, scalable production services.

The role combines production engineering with domain grounding, offering hands-on work in tool integration, memory management, and secure decision checkpoints.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineer with experience shipping agent products at scale (production ready).
• Experience running services in production and maintaining reliability.
• Familiarity with agent reasoning, memory, and document handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and own long-running AI agents that read construction docs and extract details.
• Develop reasoning loops, context handling and tool use with human checkpoints.
• Build evaluation systems to guide team decisions and improve reliability.

Skills

Agent architecture

Tool calling

Retrieval systems

Memory management

Production service ownership

Tools

Agent platforms

Orchestration tooling

Evaluation harnesses

Job description

PermitFlow seeks an experienced engineer to design AI agents that read construction documents, extract project data, and file permit forms. You will own agent architecture, reasoning loops, and evaluation systems to ensure reliable, scalable production services.

The role combines production engineering with domain grounding, offering hands-on work in tool integration, memory management, and secure decision checkpoints.