Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert

About the role

The Senior Permitting & Plan Review Expert will serve as a full-time domain expert for Brain Co.'s engineering, product, design, data, and go-to-market teams. This role involves helping the company understand real permit reviewer practices, interpret building codes, evaluate applications, and handle edge cases.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• ICC Certified Plans Examiner (CPE) credential is required
• 5+ years of hands-on plan review, plans examination, code consulting, private provider, building official, or permitting experience across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience reviewing across multiple jurisdictions, states, municipalities, or private provider environments
• Fluency in the IBC, IRC, and at least one state building code overlay; Florida Building Code experience is a plus
• 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
• 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
• Strong written communication and documentation skills