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AlphaSense · 16 hours ago

Staff Embedded Client Platform Engineer

New York, New York, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$176K/yr - $242K/yr

7+ years exp

AlphaSense is a leading company in AI-driven market intelligence, helping professionals make informed decisions. The role involves owning and evolving AlphaSense's embedded client platform, focusing on Excel integrations to enhance the daily workflows of financial professionals.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningMarket ResearchSaaSSearch Engine

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and reliability of AlphaSense’s Excel integrations (Office Add‑ins, JS/TS, legacy components)

Define clear boundaries between workbook state, plugin state, and cloud state

Ensure zero data corruption and strict Excel file integrity guarantees

Make complex operations feel instantaneous (<100ms local, <500ms remote)

Design for offline, slow networks, and enterprise restrictions (proxy, SSO, locked‑down IT)

Establish testing, observability, and deployment best practices for desktop/embedded environments

Unify fragmented Excel tools into a single, coherent client architecture

Create reusable abstractions for embedded client development

Define patterns that reduce Excel‑specific fragility over time

Mentor other engineers working in constrained client environments

Qualification

JavaScriptTypeScriptPerformance profilingEnterprise deploymentClient-side testingMentoring engineersEvent-driven programmingFinancial systems experience

Required

7+ years building and operating production user‑facing software

Proven experience embedding software into a non‑owned host environment, such as:

Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and event‑driven programming experience

Track record of performance profiling and optimization in constrained runtimes

Zero‑tolerance mindset for data corruption and reliability issues

Experience with enterprise deployment, updates, version skew, and rollback

Strong testing and observability instincts for client‑side systems

Ability to mentor engineers and set technical standards

Preferred

Built systems where <100ms latency materially impacted user trust

Experience debugging non‑deterministic, stateful, event‑driven systems

Background in financial systems, trading tools, or analyst workflows

Experience with offline‑first architectures and sync

History of working effectively with enterprise IT and security teams

Benefits

Equity

Generous benefits program

Company

AlphaSense

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AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions. It is a sub-organization of AlphaSense.

Founded in 2008

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.alpha-sense.com/

H1B Sponsorship

AlphaSense has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (7)

2024 (1)

2023 (3)

2022 (3)

2021 (3)

2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$1.42B

Key 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

IPO Edge

IPO Edge Nasdaq Firesides Scheduled for Feb 2, March 19 & May 19

2026-01-21

PR Newswire

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2026-01-12

Morningstar.com

The Sohn Conference Foundation Announces 2026 Global Events Calendar and Initial Sponsor Commitments

2025-12-29

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