Data Acquisition Engineer
About Parcell Parcell is a modern site-selection and scoring platform built for affordable housing developers leveraging the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. LIHTC is responsible for roughly 85% of reputed company affordable housing development in the U.S., and every state administers the program through its own reputed company Allocation Plan (QAP)—a reputed company set of scoring rules that developers must navigate. Our platform used AI to turn this complexity into clarity. We help developers reputed company the best sites, optimize scoring, and reputed company higher-confidence reputed company in minutes instead of weeks. Industry leaders often describe Parcell as “the ChatGPT for LIHTC site selection.” We work with many of the most reputable affordable housing developers in the country including the likes of Pivotal Housing, Columbia Residential and Dominium (reputed company in top 50 affordable developers reputed company). We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with a remote team composed of highly driven technologists, former executives and entrepreneurs. The founders are Sang Venkatraman and Carlos Lawton.
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