Staff Software Engineer - Customer Facing Applied AI

As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll build agentic systems from idea through production. The work starts with understanding the problem well enough to know what to build, then moves fast through prototyping and iteration. You'll design agent behavior, wire up tool integrations, tune evaluations until the AI actually works in practice. You'll sit close to the people who use what you build, and that feedback loop is how both the product and your skills grow fast. The team is new. Your work shapes what we ship.

This role may require occasional work outside standard business hours to accommodate client time zones and up to 15% travel to client sites, including occasional overnight and multi-day engagements.

What You'll Do

• Build AI-powered agents and tools end-to-end: identify the problem with clients and domain experts, prototype quickly, evaluate rigorously, and ship to production
• Design and implement LLM integrations including prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and retrieval-augmented workflows
• Define evaluation criteria and build test harnesses for AI systems where correctness is ambiguous and domain-specific
• Work directly with clients to understand their workflows, validate AI behavior, and iterate toward production quality
• Partner with core engineering teams to generalize client-specific work into product features
• Contribute to shared AI infrastructure (agent frameworks, tool integrations, deployment pipelines)
• Monitor and maintain production AI systems with attention to reliability, cost, and performance

Who You Are

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Professional experience with Python (the team's primary language)
• Experience working with LLM APIs (Claude, GPT, or similar) including function calling and structured outputs
• Comfort with SQL for data exploration and building data-grounded AI workflows
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar)
• You've built something from zero to one. You're drawn to figuring out what to build, not just building what's specified.
• A bias for action. You ship quickly, learn from feedback, and iterate.
• You see projects through from prototype to production and care about what the client experiences, not what the code does
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent experience

Nice to Have

• Experience building agentic systems (multi-step tool use, agent orchestration, durable workflows)
• Experience with additional backend languages (Java is valuable in our environment)
• Familiarity with financial data (portfolios, transactions, securities, accounting)
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS) and container-based deployments
• Experience with evaluation frameworks or methodologies for measuring AI system quality

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for this role within the United States.

Compensation for this role includes base salary + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Base Salary Range

$158,000—$248,000 USD

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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