Staff Software Engineer

About AlphaSense:

The worlds most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research company filings event transcripts expert calls news trade journals and clients own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth innovation and content expansion with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6000 enterprise customers including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011 AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S. U.K. Finland India Singapore Canada and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep production experience in Python and hands-on expertise in AI systems particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) BERT or similar architectures. Youll play a key role in building scalable intelligent systems that power our next-generation AI capabilities.

As a Staff Engineer youll collaborate closely with product teams engineers within the team and also cross collaboration and to design and implement robust high-performance solutions that bring AI research into production.

What Youll Do :

• Design and deliver production-grade systems and scalable AI pipelines integrating models such as LLMs BERT and other architectures into Alphasense product.
• Develop innovative prompt engineering strategy and systems to maximize reliability and performance on confidential business documents.
• Solve Engineering challenges that come along with LLM solutions such as high latency non-deterministic output etc.
• Drive technical excellence through robust system design algorithm optimization and high-performance model deployment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and business stakeholders to align technical strategies with roadmap goals ensuring business impact and delivery predictability.
• Own end-to-end execution from requirements to release facilitating technical discussions unblocking teams and accurately forecasting deliverables.
• Ensure quality and reliability by proactively engaging in release planning maintaining high development standards and upholding service SLOs/SLIs in production.
• Apply strong DevOps practices to monitor troubleshoot and optimize production systems anticipating and resolving risks early.
• Partner with other Engineers in the team to shape engineering standards mentor peers across teams and cultivate a culture of learning documentation and shared technical ownership.

Must Have

• Expert in building scalable high-performing and robust applications in Python
• Several years of production-level experience designing deploying and maintaining Python-based systems
• Hands-on experience (12 years) working with AI models such as LLMs BERT or similar architectures at a large scale
• Strong understanding of algorithms data structures complexity analysis problem-solving and object-oriented design
• Proficient with Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms
• Deep understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and data modeling principles
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Experience in owning services end-to-end building running performing iterative improvements and observability
• Strong experience in writing RFCs creating technical documentation and driving engineering best practices

Good to Have

• Experience with Java
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in relevant technologies
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Experience with GitOps ArgoCD

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