Senior AI Engineer

We're building the infrastructure that takes permitting from months to days. Join a team of engineers, permitting experts, and operators solving one of construction's hardest problems.

what guides us

Our values are an essential part of how we operate. They shape every aspect of life at Pulley, including how we relate to our customers, our colleagues, and our work.

Urgency and a bias to action. We keep feedback loops tight, favor progress over perfection, and move fast without being careless.

Empathy, warmth, and honest feedback. We assume positive intent — but kind doesn't mean soft.

Quality of work and clever problem-solving. We're precise and inventive — not sneaky or corner-cutting.

life at pulley

We believe great work happens when people have autonomy, context, and trust.

We're a small, focused team where every person's contribution is visible. If you want ownership, speed, and the chance to build something that matters you'll fit right in.

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Opportunities for in-person and remote work
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k)

open roles

We're hiring across every team. If you don't see a perfect fit, reach out anyway — we're always looking for exceptional people.

Full time

About Pulley

Pulley helps the country’s top architects, builders, and retailers speed up every project in their portfolio. With AI-powered permitting intelligence and expert guidance, we eliminate costly delays and bring predictability across the full lifecycle of commercial projects.

Today, permitting is the slowest, most uncertain part of building, spread across 19,000+ jurisdictions with different rules, timelines, and surprises. Pulley gives project teams the clarity and predictability they need to move from planning to opening without delays.

We support rollout programs for brands like J.Crew, Solidcore, and Hibbett Sports, as well as major data center buildouts, EV charging networks, and other commercial projects. Our platform dramatically reduces approval timelines, improves forecasting accuracy, and removes thousands of hours of manual work from design and construction teams.

Founded in 2021, Pulley combines deep permitting expertise with purpose-built AI from people who have created products used by millions. We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, Fifth Wall, and leaders from Plaid, Segment, Service Titan, and Procore.

In this role, you will build the intelligence behind the product that gets stuff built. Permitting runs on messy inputs—scanned plan sets, jurisdiction code, reviewer comments, application forms that differ in every city—and turning that into something fast, structured, and trustworthy is the core technical problem  a senior-level AI engineer, you will:

Own AI-powered features end-to-end—from talking to users and defining what “correct” means for a permitting workflow, through prompt and pipeline design, evals, deployment, and iteration in production

Turn unstructured permitting documents, city regulations, and jurisdiction workflows into structured, reliable outputs—extraction, classification, retrieval, and agentic workflows over documents that were never designed to be machine-readable

Build the evaluation and observability foundation that lets us ship LLM-powered features with confidence: define ground truth, measure quality and regressions, and know when a model change is actually an improvement

Build with AI agents as a daily practice—directing, reviewing, and shipping agent-driven work at high velocity while owning the quality bar

Make technical and product decisions that have direct impact on our customers and their…