Senior / Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform - AlphaSense

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid Schedule) 

Reports to: Director of Engineering, AI & Search

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients' own research content.

Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com

About the Role: 

We are seeking a passionate Senior / Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience in architecting and building highly scalable & complex backend systems to join our AI Platform team within the Search & AI Platform org. The Search & AI team develops the next generation of Search infrastructure and AI platform, and owns the platform and services powering AlphaSense's Search & AI product features. The AI Platform team is responsible for building the ML platform to streamline and manage the deployment of ML/LLM models in production and build the backend (data pipelines, services, etc.) to allow these ML/LLM models to power product features. You will work alongside a team of talented engineers to incept and deliver innovative and scalable solutions for our world-class AI-powered search platform.

Requirements: 

• A BS/MS/PhD degree in a relevant technical discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology is highly desired, but equivalent experience will be considered as well.
• 2+ years of experience as a technical leader responsible for delivering large and/or complex mission-critical initiatives.  
• 5+ years of software development experience with designing and building complex, scalable, high-performing, and robust applications. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP. 
• Proficient in Java and/or Python, and familiar with IAC technologies such as Terraform and Crossplane.
• Experience in producing high-quality software designs to support long-term maintainability and extensibility of systems and code.
• Experience in MLOps/LLMOps building and/or deploying ML/LLM platforms that host / manage multiple ML/LLM models in production at scale. 
• An excellent communicator with strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of cutting-edge AI-powered products in a fast paced environment.  
• Partner with AI researchers, product managers, designers and other engineering teams to build best-in-class market intelligence features.
• Be the thought leader and domain expert for all things LLMOps for AlphaSense and drive innovation and efficiency for AlphaSense in this area. 
• Build platforms to help AlphaSense accelerate the launch of new and improve existing AI-powered products.
• Build scalable and reliable data pipelines and services that incorporate the use of ML models to solve complex business problems. 
• Architect, design and implement highly scalable backend services powering AlphaSense Search & AI products.
• Deploy owned services to single tenant cloud environments.
• Provide technical leadership to implement best practices for software development. 

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense's commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Base Compensation Range*:  $165,000 - $225,000 

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. This range covers both senior & staff level. The actual base salary and title will depend on the candidates' experience and performance in interviews.