AlphaSense · 2 months ago
Staff AI Platform Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$203K/yr - $304K/yr
7+ years expAlphaSense is a company that provides AI-driven market intelligence to help professionals make smarter decisions. They are seeking an experienced engineering leader to transform the building and operation of AI-powered systems at scale, focusing on engineering excellence and mentoring talented teams.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningMarket ResearchSaaSSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Architect for Scale: Design and implement distributed systems that power AI agents processing thousands of requests per hour, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
Build Engineering Excellence: Establish comprehensive testing strategies, observability systems, and CI/CD pipelines that catch issues before customers do
Lead Through Expertise: Mentor a team of smart, motivated engineers, sharing your experience in building production systems that don't break at 3 AM
Drive Platform Evolution: Own the technical roadmap for our AI platform, making architectural decisions that will shape our systems for years to come
Bridge AI and Engineering: Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to productionize cutting-edge AI capabilities while maintaining system stability
Qualification
Required
7+ years building and operating distributed systems in production
Track record of improving system reliability (taking services from frequent outages to 99.9%+ uptime)
Deep expertise in modern engineering practices: microservices, containerization (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code
Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams
Strong coding skills with ability to work across the stack
Excellence in debugging production issues and implementing comprehensive observability
History of making pragmatic trade-offs between perfect and shipped
Preferred
Experience with LLM applications, agent frameworks, or AI/ML infrastructure
Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, vector databases
Background at high-growth companies or modern engineering cultures
Experience with multi-model AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)
Benefits
Equity
A generous benefits program
Company
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions. It is a sub-organization of AlphaSense.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.42BKey Investors
BondCapitalGBlackRock
2024-06-11Series F· $650M
2023-09-28Series E· $150M
2023-04-11Series D· $100M
Leadership Team
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder
Joe Hill
CFO
Recent News
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2025-12-29
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