Customer-Facing Applied AI Engineer

Addepar1; United States; On-site; USD 158,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build agentic systems from concept to production, partnering with clients and engineering teams to ship scalable AI features. You will understand client workflows, prototype solutions, and drive them into production with rapid iteration.

You will design agent behavior, integrate LLMs, and define evaluation criteria while collaborating closely with clients to ensure reliable, cost-effective deployments. Occasional travel to client sites may be required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with LLM APIs.
• Experience with SQL for data exploration and data-grounded AI workflows.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar).
• BS/MS in CS, Mathematics, or related field, 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 toolchains

Prototype to production

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Claude

Codex

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Addepar is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build agentic systems from concept to production, partnering with clients and engineering teams to ship scalable AI features. You will understand client workflows, prototype solutions, and drive them into production with rapid iteration.

You will design agent behavior, integrate LLMs, and define evaluation criteria while collaborating closely with clients to ensure reliable, cost-effective deployments. Occasional travel to client sites may be required.