Hiring: Engineering Manager, AI Company: PermitFlow Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:20:17 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, SaaS, Systems Design About the job Experience: •5+ years in software engineering, including 1+ year in engineering leadership Required Skills: •This is a builder-leader role. You will own both people leadership and technical execution for the systems that decide whether an AI agent can submit a permit on its own, or needs a human in the loop. •Be expected to drive your own roadmap end-to-end from technical direction and execution planning through delivery and measurable accuracy and reliability gains in production, not just shipping features but moving the automation ceiling. •Lead and grow an engineering team building and hardening PermitFlow's agentic infrastructure, raising the bar for ownership, quality, and execution speed •Build strong engineering culture through clear expectations, 1:1s, feedback loops, and career development •Own the technical architecture behind our workflow agents: orchestration, model serving, latency, cost per task, and failure handling at scale •Partner with our Product Manager, AI to define what “reliable enough to submit” means, and build the engineering systems that gate release against that bar •Build and scale our evaluation infrastructure: golden data sets, LLM-as-judge pipelines, human annotation tooling, and online monitoring for drift and regression •Strategically drive internal tooling every team at PermitFlow uses to test, error-analyze, and hill-climb agentic work Compensation: •Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!