# Staff Software Engineer - Reference Data - AI/ML

**Company:** [Addepar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/addepar)
**Location:** Edinburgh, United Kingdom
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Vector Databases, Prompt Tuning, Agentic Frameworks, Mcp, LangChain, Databricks, MLflow, Ai Platforms, Production Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Leads the design, productionization, and continuous improvement of AI-native products and platform capabilities, including LLM and agentic systems. Requires extensive software engineering experience, production system ownership, and a technical degree or equivalent experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Drive end-to-end execution and delivery of AI-native products, from initial prototype through scalable production services.
- Architect, build, and productionize AI platform components, including:
  - Large language models and the surrounding ecosystem, such as vector databases and prompt tuning.
  - Agentic frameworks.
  - Agent capabilities including MCP, cross-platform tool use, web browsing, and computer use.
- Enforce technical discipline and operational excellence across AI products.
- Rapidly iterate on AI products using performance metrics and user feedback.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks.
- Partner with product managers and engineering teams to translate strategic goals into technical solutions and abstract AI complexity for rapid iteration.
- Collaborate with engineering leads to define and implement scalable platform architecture.
- Evaluate and drive strategic business and technology decisions for the company and its customers.
- Provide technical leadership, education, best practices, and strategic guidance.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Extensive software engineering experience.
- Proven track record of owning and shipping complex, production-grade systems.
- Experience shipping and maintaining AI-native products or features, or significant personal AI projects.
- Strong ownership mindset and commitment to completing projects and raising execution standards.
- Bias toward action and passion for rapid shipping and iterative improvement.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience with large language models and agentic systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM technologies such as Databricks, LangChain, or MLflow.
- Advanced understanding of the probabilistic systems underpinning modern LLMs.
- Experience building AI products in highly accuracy-sensitive domains such as finance.

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