Sr. Software Engineer - Reference Data
Addepar
Overview
As Sr. Software Engineer on Addepar’s Reference Data team, you will architect and deliver AI-native capabilities that power our platform. You’ll own end-to-end AI product delivery, from prototypes to scalable production services, focusing on reliability and performance. You’ll work with product teams to translate goals into robust AI solutions, shaping the wealth-technology landscape. This role combines hands-on execution with thought leadership in AI across the platform.
Responsibilities- Drive end-to-end AI product delivery from prototype to production services
- Architect and productionize core AI platform components (LLMs, vector databases, prompt tuning)
- Develop agentic capabilities including MCP and cross-platform tool use, web browsing, and computer interactions
- Enforce technical discipline and operational excellence across AI products
- Iterate AI products using performance metrics and user feedback for continuous improvement
- Evaluate and adopt new AI technologies to stay at the frontier
- Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to translate strategic goals into technical solutions
- Define and implement platform architecture with growth and scalability in mind
- Provide technical leadership and prescriptive guidance on AI best practices
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or similar field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Extensive software engineering experience
- Proven track record shipping complex, production-grade systems
- Experience shipping/maintaining AI-native products or demonstrable AI-related projects
- Strong ownership mindset and bias for action
- Experience with LLMs and agentic systems (preferred)
- Hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM tools (Databricks, Langchain, MLFlow - preferred)
- Understanding of probabilistic systems underpinning LLMs (preferred)
- Experience building AI products in finance or highly accuracy-sensitive domains (a plus)
- ownership mindset
- bias for action
- collaboration
- LLMs and agentic frameworks
- vector databases and prompt tuning
- MCP/cross-platform tool use
Reference: WJ-747_30164765