Senior Software Engineer (Placer Intelligence)
Company: Placer.ai
Location: United States, Remote
Salary: $160k - $190k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-09
About this role
- We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer, with deep GenAI expertise to lead our AI product solutions and development efforts
- In this role, you will be responsible for driving the technical vision and architecture of our AI-powered location intelligence platform, building production-ready solutions that transform how businesses understand and leverage location data
- You will oversee the full-stack development of our conversational AI system, from LLM integration and agentic workflows to real-time streaming interfaces, while establishing the technical foundation for our next-generation business intelligence tools
- 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
### Benefits
- Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
- Fully remote- If you are a technical leader with 10+ years of software development experience, proven success in production GenAI environments, and a passion for ...