Environmental Planning Engineer
About The Position
Blumen is building the regulatory intelligence layer for American infrastructure. Our platform combines regulatory information with more than 2,500 geospatial datasets to help energy companies and environmental consultants understand the permits, constraints, and risks facing a project in hours instead of weeks. We are a small, fast-moving team tackling a huge market at the moment AI is beginning to reshape professional services. Someone joining now will help define both Blumen and the future of environmental work in infrastructure development. We are looking for an environmental practitioner who wants to help build the AI-native version of environmental planning. You will use Blumen to evaluate real energy and infrastructure projects, research unresolved environmental and permitting questions, and ensure that our work is accurate enough for customers to act on. You will also help turn repeated professional judgment into better product logic, evaluations, and workflows. This is a hands-on production role. You will review maps, regulations, agency sources, planning documents, and AI-generated findings; correct errors; fill gaps; structure information; and complete project deliverables under real deadlines. The work can be repetitive and exacting. We need someone who is happy to do the detailed work every day, not someone who only wants to advise on how it should be done. As you develop command of the work, you will identify patterns the product should capture and work directly with product and engineering to improve the system. This should appeal to an ambitious environmental professional who wants to move beyond the traditional consulting path, help disrupt how infrastructure services are delivered, and build the tools their field will use next.
Requirements
- Experience in environmental planning, permitting, natural resources, land use, environmental consulting, government, or infrastructure development.
- Ability to distinguish a material project risk from a generic database hit and explain what a developer should investigate next.
- Extremely hardworking, humble, and detail oriented.
- Care about citations and factual accuracy.
- Take pride in completing repetitive work well.
- Remain dependable when project volume is high.
- Desire to work closely with software and AI, but understand that better tools begin with a deep command of the underlying practice.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with energy projects
- Experience with critical issues analyses
- Experience with permit matrices
- Experience with NEPA or CEQA
- GIS experience
- Experience with multidisciplinary site diligence
Responsibilities
- Evaluate sites for environmental, land-use, and permitting risks.
- Produce and review critical issues analyses, permit assessments, and environmental screens.
- Research uncertain findings using authoritative regulatory, agency, planning, and project sources.
- Review AI-generated analysis closely and correct unsupported, incomplete, or misleading conclusions.
- Convert recurring project work into clearer methods, evaluation cases, and product requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
