# Principal Software Engineer, AI at PermitFlow

- Company: PermitFlow
- What the company does: PermitFlow simplifies permit preparation, submission, and tracks nationwide. Our platform handles the paperwork across all municipalities. Backed by Accel, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.permitflow.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/permitflow/e6382eec-5b9b-4b06-8ea1-f6a173173207?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/permitflow-principal-software-engineer-ai/

## About the role

We're hiring a Staff/Principal Engineer to build PermitFlow's core product AI Assistant, infrastructure, and workflow agents. This is a role that will require UX and technical acumen to deliver high quality agents in a genuinely complex domain, while also up-leveling our core agentic infrastructure and data flywheel. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You've shipped an assistant or agentic product at meaningful scale
- Deep, current knowledge of the agentic stack (tool calling and tool design, context engineering, memory, retrieval, orchestration patterns, etc)
- You’ve built eval harnesses that changed what a team worked on, and you can articulate what makes an eval trustworthy
- You are a genuinely strong software engineer, not an AI specialist who needs someone else to make it production-ready. You’ve owned services in production and you write code that other people are glad to inherit
- You operate with earned authority. You influence through demonstrated judgment, working code, and clear writing rather than title or mandate
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with recent time spent building LLM-powered products

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/permitflow-principal-software-engineer-ai/