Senior AI Software Engineer

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Senior AI Software Engineer building Placer.ai’s internal AI platform. Creating agents, MCP integrations, and Databricks automation for the location analytics company’s teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect AI agents that execute reliable multi-step workflows using reasoning, tool calls, and decision-making
  • Design, build, and deploy MCP servers for external SaaS integrations and Placer.ai internal tools
  • Build secure OAuth and credential-management infrastructure for connector authentication
  • Define and apply production-readiness standards for MCP servers, including security, Kubernetes deployment, logging, and access controls
  • Triage connector requests and bug reports and distinguish rollout-critical work from backlog
  • Build and maintain Cowork plugins and Claude skills for Marketing, Operations, Data, and other workflows
  • Automate manual and repetitive processes using Claude
  • Own and improve Placer.ai’s internal Databricks BI environment, including data restructuring and ingestion pipelines
  • Build tooling to track internal AI usage, adoption, and high-value use cases
  • Optimize compute, storage, networking, performance, and cost across the internal AI platform
  • Implement AI platform security practices including identity management, encryption, and compliance monitoring
  • Partner across AI Operations, R&D, Data Science, GTM, and other teams
  • Report to the COO and own the path from integration request to production-grade system
  • Help establish triage and review processes enabling safe self-service across the organization

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Prior experience with MCP servers, LLM tool use, or AI agent frameworks
  • Prior experience in data engineering or analytics tooling
  • Solid understanding of REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, and credential management
  • Experience with Google Cloud authentication patterns, including gcloud and service accounts
  • Experience building and deploying services to Kubernetes or equivalent container infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Databricks or similar data warehouses/data lakes is a plus
  • Comfort working without an existing playbook and adapting as role definition, standards, and tooling evolve
  • Strong communication skills for translating business requests into engineering requirements
  • Ability to navigate competing priorities across R&D Architecture, AI Enablement, and business teams
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools and curiosity about applying them in new ways
  • Comfort integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows
  • No educational credential explicitly required

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary
  • Excellent benefits
  • Fully remote
  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Flexible time off
  • 401K
  • Equity awards for certain roles
  • Opportunity to work with and learn from top-notch talent
  • Central and critical role at Placer.ai