ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.
Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.
Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.
 

SUMMARY:

• As a Senior Big Data Engineer, working within Placer.ai's Mobility Group, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our location analytics platform.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Data Pipeline Architecture and Development: Design, build, and optimize robust and scalable data pipelines to process, transform, and integrate large volumes of data from various sources into our analytics platform.
• Data Quality Assurance: Implement data validation, cleansing, and enrichment techniques to ensure high-quality and consistent data across the platform.
• Performance Optimization: Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize data processing and storage mechanisms to enhance overall system performance and reduce latency.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Work extensively with cloud-based technologies (GCP and AWS), to design and manage scalable data infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Data Governance: Implement and enforce data governance practices, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and best practices related to data privacy and security.
• Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitor the health and performance of data pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability of data infrastructure.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong hands-on Apache Spark experience — building and operating pipelines in production, not just familiarity
• Proficiency in PySpark or Scala for Spark development
• Proven track record delivering ETL pipelines and data integration at scale
• Solid SQL skills and command of data modeling concepts
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) in a production data context
• Comfortable working with distributed systems and big data formats (Parquet, Delta Lake)

Nice to have:

• Experience with pipeline orchestration tools, particularly Apache Airflow
• Exposure to the geospatial or location analytics domain
• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem components
• Background in both Python and Scala (beyond Spark context)

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• See our data in action at The Anchor
• Placer.ai in the news
• Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate
• Video Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

May 2026

ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

SUMMARY:

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Placer.ai’s core engineering group and build the systems behind one of the world’s largest location-analytics platforms.

In this role, you’ll work on backend services that process and serve billions of data points, power ML-driven insights, and operate at high scale and high reliability. If you’re motivated by hard technical challenges, modern infrastructure, and collaborating with strong engineers, this role is built for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and evolve large-scale, distributed backend systems that power Placer.ai’s data and AI products
• Own services end-to-end — from architecture and design to production, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Drive performance, scalability, and reliability, using data and metrics to guide decisions
• Build infrastructure and data pipelines that support machine-learning, analytics, and real-time use cases
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Analytics to turn complex data into impactful product features
• Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design discussions, and technical mentorship

REQUIREMENTS:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale B2B SaaS or data-driven products
• Proven track record building and maintaining production-grade distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in one or more of: Python, Java, Go, Node.js, .NET — with a bias toward Python
• Solid engineering fundamentals: system design, data structures, APIs, testing, and observability
• Hands-on experience with data-intensive systems and complex data pipelines
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

AI Fluency:

• A genuine early adopter of emerging AI technologies — continuously explores new tools and paradigms, integrates them into practice ahead of the curve, and actively drives that culture within their team
• Applies AI tooling to elevate engineering quality: accelerating development cycles, improving code quality, automating repetitive work, and pushing the boundaries of what the team ships
• Raises the bar around them: inspires and challenges peers to think differently about how AI can change the way they build

OTHER REQUIREMENTS: 

• Deep experience with Python and MongoDB
• Experience with Google Cloud data technologies (BigQuery, Bigtable)
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code
• Exposure to AI/ML-adjacent systems: data pipelines, feature stores, model serving, or analytics platforms
• Experience integrating or building on top of LLM APIs or AI services
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks or full-stack collaboration

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Hybrid

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• See our data in action at The Anchor
• Placer.ai in the news
• Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate
• Video Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

#LI-AC1 May 2026

ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
  
  

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• See our data in action at The Anchor
• Placer.ai in the news
• Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate
• Video Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.
Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.
Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

SUMMARY:
The Marketing Associate will support the execution of Placer.ai’s event and partnership marketing initiatives. This role is ideal for a highly organized, detail-oriented marketer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
Working closely with the Senior Events & Partnerships Manager, this individual will help coordinate logistics and execution for external events (including trade shows and conferences) as well as partnership-driven campaigns such as webinars and email activations. This role requires strong project management skills, cross-functional collaboration, and a proactive approach to ensuring deliverables are executed on time and at a high standard.
The ideal candidate is operationally strong, analytically curious, and can evaluate performance and provide recommendations to optimize future campaigns.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support execution of external events, including trade shows, conferences, and sponsorships
• Manage relationships with event organizers and partners to ensure seamless execution and strong collaboration
• Coordinate partnership marketing initiatives, including webinars, email campaigns, and co-marketing activations
• Own project management across events, partnerships, and ABM initiatives, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met
• Act as a central point of coordination across Marketing, Content, Sales, and Event Operations teams
• Collaborate with content teams to align on messaging and promotion strategies
• Maintain organization across multiple concurrent events and partnership activations
• Coordinate execution of ABM campaigns across Sales and Marketing, including audience targeting and marketing activities tied to specific accounts
• Act as a resource for AEs by connecting them to the right content, assets, and data signals at the right stage of their ABM deals
• Track ABM campaign metrics and translate findings into clear, actionable updates for stakeholders
• Manage partner email campaigns and CRM list uploads
• Provide ongoing support to the Senior Events & Partnerships Manager on additional projects

REQUIREMENTS:

• 2 years of experience in marketing, events, partnerships, or a related field
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Familiarity with HubSpot or similar marketing automation platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience supporting events, partnerships, or campaign execution preferred
• Detail-oriented with a proactive, problem-solving mindset
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• Able to analyze campaign performance and translate insights into actionable recommendations
• Highly motivated, self-starter attitude with strong ownership of responsibilities
• Undergraduate degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field
• Native-level English proficiency
• Willingness to take some calls in the evening

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI?

Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating

• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• See our data in action at The Anchor
• Placer.ai in the news
• Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate
• Video Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.