Senior Software Engineer - Data Technologies in Edinburgh

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity.

The reference data team at Addepar is responsible for managing the data reconciliation and curation process for market data providers to build a single source of truth and provide alignment across public and alternative investment data products for the client to manage their investment portfolio. The team is focused on enabling and building disruptive, innovative solutions to transform the wealth technology landscape with AI across our product suite and is growing quickly.

You will be responsible for architecting, leading, and driving the execution of the core AI capabilities that power our platform. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who thrives on the frontier of applied AI and maintains a relentless focus on shipping. You will own the end-to-end delivery of AI-native products, ensuring that cutting-edge AI systems are hardened into robust, scalable, and high-performance production systems.

• Drive the end-to-end execution and delivery of AI-native products, moving from initial prototype to scalable production services with high velocity.
• Architect, build, and productionize core components of our AI platform – including vector DBs, prompt tuning, etc.
• Enforce technical discipline and operational excellence for all of our AI products.
• Rapidly iterate on AI products based on performance metrics and user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks to keep Addepar on the frontier of the industry.
• Partner with product managers and other engineering teams to translate strategic goals into technical realities, abstracting AI complexity so they can iterate quickly.
• Evaluate and drive strategic business and technology decisions for the company and for customers.
• Be a technical thought leader in multiple areas who educates and shares best practices.

Qualifications:

• S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience).
• Extensive software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of owning and shipping complex, production-grade systems.
• Proven experience shipping and maintaining AI-native products or features, or demonstrable passion through significant personal projects in AI.
• Deep ownership mindset, seeing projects through to completion and raising the bar for execution across the team.
• A strong bias for action, with a passion for shipping rapidly and iterating with feedback.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
• [Preferred] Hands-on experience with technologies in the modern AI/LLM ecosystem, such as Databricks, Langchain, or MLFlow.
• [Preferred] Experience building AI products in highly accuracy-sensitive domains such as finance is a plus.

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