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title: 'Permitting & Plan Review Expert at Brain Co.'
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# Permitting & Plan Review Expert at Brain Co.

- **Company:** Brain Co.
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/fe05035c-f724-4f7e-b72b-9dca705b82c2

## 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.

## About Brain Co.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brain Co. builds applied AI platforms and applications that automate complex, manual workflows for the world’s most important institutions, turning permitting, insurance, supply chain, and patient-care processes from months-long bottlenecks into minutes-long transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Spain)
- **Founded**: 2024 (founding conversation in February 2024; public launch in 2025)
- **Founders**: Jared Kushner, Dan Ashton (CEO), Elad Gil, Dr. Luis Videgaray, Eric Wu, Mircea Pasoi, Revant Kapoor

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial intelligence, government technology, healthcare, insurance, energy, hospitality, supply chain logistics
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, federal/state governments, large healthcare systems, insurance carriers (B2B / Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower the world’s most important institutions to create an abundant AI future” and “reinvent the broken processes that hold governments and institutions back.”

## Products & Services
- **Permitting**: Automates construction and other permitting workflows, cutting the process from months to minutes (claims 99% faster, $375M+ unlocked annually). SaaS / AI workflow platform.
- **Specialty Insurance**: Cuts complex underwriting and adjusting workflows from hours to minutes. AI-powered decision engine.
- **Supply Chain**: Optimizes end-to-end supply chain operations, delivering 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, and mitigating $100M+ in lost revenue. Integrated AI platform.
- **Patient Pathways**: Automates patient care-path management, returning patients to optimal care faster. Healthcare AI application.
- **General AI Platform**: An underlying platform that automatically incorporates advances in foundation models, enabling applications to stay current without traditional re-development.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; Series A at $30M raised)
- **Key Metric**: $30 million total funding (Series A, led by Elad Gil and Affinity Partners, announced October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investors: Elad Gil (Gil Capital), Affinity Partners
  - Strategic partner: OpenAI
  - Angel investors include Ali Ghodsi (CEO Databricks), Andrej Karpathy, Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity), Brian Armstrong (CEO Coinbase), Kevin Weil (CPO OpenAI), Reid Hoffman, Patrick Collison (CEO Stripe), Sarah Guo (Conviction), and many more.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 73 employees (LinkedIn, June 2026), monthly growth of +20.2%, quarterly job posting growth +47.4%
  - 10+ Global 2000 customers and multiple government engagements
  - $375M+ annual value unlocked in permitting alone; $100M+ supply chain revenue loss mitigated
  - Strategic partnership with OpenAI for model access and co-innovation
  - Engineering talent sourced from Stripe, Palantir, Amazon, Adobe, Roblox, and Alchemy

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Revenue model tied to client results, not software licenses – clients pay based on value delivered.
- **Production deployment, not pilots**: Every engagement begins with a value case; solutions go straight into production.
- **Domain-expertise embedded**: Subject matter experts in each vertical (government, insurance, healthcare) work alongside AI engineers to build around specific rules, regulations, and workflows.
- **Future-proof AI**: Applications automatically incorporate new capabilities from foundation models as they are released, avoiding obsolescence.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready infrastructure with hallucination controls and guardrails.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform across additional government and enterprise verticals (e.g., energy, hospitality)
- Deepen the partnership with OpenAI to rapidly leverage newest model capabilities
- Expand headcount (28 active job postings, especially in AI engineering, infrastructure, security, and deployment)
- Extend presence in the Middle East (Qatar, UAE) and Europe (UK, Spain)
- Continue building a new software-development paradigm where applications auto-update with AI advances

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “World-class talent built to deliver applied AI in production.” The team includes engineers from Tesla, NVIDIA, DeepMind, and top tech companies. Emphasis on solving hard, high-impact problems for the largest institutions.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Francisco with distributed teams in UAE, UK, and Spain. Likely a hybrid or office-first model given the nature of client engagements.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**:
  - Outcome-driven work: every project tied to measurable value cases
  - Direct partnership with OpenAI and access to cutting-edge models
  - High-caliber co-founders (Kushner, Gil, Videgaray, Wu) and leadership (Marne Levine, former COO Instagram/Meta)
  - Rapidly growing (~73 people, +20% monthly headcount growth) – offers early-stage ownership
  - Roles span AI platform engineering, agentic systems, infrastructure, security, and deployment consulting

## Sources
1. [brain.co](https://brain.co/) – Main site overview
2. [brain.co](https://brain.co/blog/introducing-brain-co-9gk9a) – Introducing Brain Co. blog post (funding, founders, investors, customers)
3. [braincompany.ai](https://braincompany.ai/about) – About page (team, approach, security)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainco-ai/jobs) – LinkedIn company page (headcount, growth, job postings, talent sources)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/) – Careers page (open positions)

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