Permitting and Environmental SME
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Location: San Francisco, CA 94112
Description:
About Blumen
Blumen is building the operating system to power the next decade of American Infrastructure. A year from founding, we work with some of the largest renewable power, data centers, telecom, and utilities in the world. Join us in unblocking the next $2T of power, connectivity, and critical infrastructure with world class software.
As a Permitting SME at Blumen, you will sit at the intersection of regulation, engineering, and AI. You'll play a key role in shaping how our systems interpret and interact with environmental and land-use regulations across the U.S., ensuring our models are accurate, useful, and aligned with real-world permitting practice.
This role is ideal for someone with deep familiarity with permitting and regulatory processes in energy or infrastructure projects, and a curiosity for working on novel tools that are reshaping the space.
In this role, you will:
Put yourself in the customer's shoes. We care deeply about serving our customers above all else. No job is too small. Details matter, even if nobody will ever see them. Every problem is an opportunity. Any solution that is clever, difficult to reproduce, or takes serious guts is an opportunity to widen our moat. To go far, go together. We trust, respect, win, and lose together, as a team. Own the problem. Not your solution. Best idea wins. It doesn't get easier. We just get faster. There is no finish line. Every day is a step toward compounding success. This is a marathon toward excellence.
Blumen is building the operating system to power the next decade of American Infrastructure. A year from founding, we work with some of the largest renewable power, data centers, telecom, and utilities in the world. Join us in unblocking the next $2T of power, connectivity, and critical infrastructure with world class software.
As a Permitting SME at Blumen, you will sit at the intersection of regulation, engineering, and AI. You'll play a key role in shaping how our systems interpret and interact with environmental and land-use regulations across the U.S., ensuring our models are accurate, useful, and aligned with real-world permitting practice.
This role is ideal for someone with deep familiarity with permitting and regulatory processes in energy or infrastructure projects, and a curiosity for working on novel tools that are reshaping the space.
In this role, you will:
- Tune Regulatory AI Models: Use internal tools to review, structure, and refine how our AI models interpret permitting rules, local ordinances, and federal/state environmental regulations.
- Guide Deployment Workflows: Collaborate with customers to integrate Blumen into real permitting efforts-helping configure the platform to suit their process and project-specific needs.
- Curate Regulatory Content: Maintain and update Blumen's regulatory knowledge base, including changes in state and local policy or permitting practices.
- Support Prompt Engineering: Partner with AI engineers to refine how our platform generates regulatory guidance and recommendations using LLMs.
- Have 3+ years of experience in permitting, regulatory compliance, or environmental planning-especially in energy, utilities, infrastructure, or land development.
- Have worked with NEPA, CEQA, Section 404, state/local permitting processes, or zoning regulations.
- Communicate clearly and enjoy synthesizing complex regulatory topics for diverse audiences.
- Are curious about how AI tools can transform legacy workflows-and eager to build the future, not just observe it.
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and energized by solving open-ended problems with a team.
- Have experience specifically with projects on BLM and other federally managed lands.
- Have worked at or with a consulting firm, developer, utility, or government agency involved in permitting.