Senior Software Engineer, Placer Intelligence

Placer.ai is a location analytics company helping organizations understand physical locations, markets, and consumer behavior. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the technical vision and development of AI-powered location intelligence solutions, including full-stack conversational AI systems, LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and real-time interfaces. The role also focuses on building scalable production systems, evaluating AI performance, and ensuring security, reliability, and measurable business impact.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product, design, and customers. Bring an engineer's view of what to build and how, not just take tickets
• Turn vague requirements into clear technical plans, and adjust as you learn
• Design, build, and ship production features across the full stack: APIs, data models, services, and UI
• Make architecture decisions that balance speed now against maintainability later
• Build AI-powered capabilities into the product: LLM features, retrieval, agents, and tool-calling flows (including MCP), with scoped permissions and failure recovery
• Build evals from real user questions so every prompt or model change is measured before it ships
• Protect AI features against prompt injection, personal-data leaks, and made-up answers
• Keep production healthy: monitoring and tracing (including AI cost and latency), debugging from real traces, and fixing what breaks
• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as a core part of how you work, and own the quality, tests, and reliability of what ships
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, sharing what works with AI tools, and improving the team's workflow