Client-Facing Applied AI Engineer: Build Production Agents

Addepar, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar, Inc. in the United States is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join the newly formed Applied AI team.

You will spend time understanding a client’s world, identify what to build, prototype it, prove it works, and partner with core engineering to ship it as product for all customers. You'll design agent behavior, wire up tool integrations, and optimize evaluations so the AI actually works in practice.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with LLM APIs including function calling.
• 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 and ship quickly with feedback.
• BS/MS in CS, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Python

LLM APIs

SQL

AI tools

Java

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Claude

Codex

Job description

Addepar, Inc. in the United States is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join the newly formed Applied AI team.

You will spend time understanding a client’s world, identify what to build, prototype it, prove it works, and partner with core engineering to ship it as product for all customers. You'll design agent behavior, wire up tool integrations, and optimize evaluations so the AI actually works in practice.