Staff AI Engineer

About the Role:

AlphaSense is seeking a passionate Staff AI engineer to join our AI & Search mission. This cluster of teams is responsible for developing cutting edge deep learning, NLP, search, and next-generation Generative AI platform powering AlphaSense’s AI & Search product features.

As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented engineers to deliver scalable solutions for our world-class AI-powered search platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect, design, and implement highly scalable services for AlphaSense AI and Search products
• Improve the reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency of AI and search services in cloud environments.
• Deploy AI and Search services to both SaaS and single-tenant cloud environments.
• Translate product requirements into software architectures in collaboration with Product Management.
• Solve challenges that come along with working with large language models (high latency, variance, etc.), leading to a defensive, fault-first mindset.
• Provide technical leadership and implement best practices for software development.

Who You Are:

• Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering on complex, data-intensive applications with professional, real-world experience with applications at scale
• Extremely proficient in Applied LLM/NLP,  developing and deploying solutions using NLP frameworks like LangChain, HuggingFace, back-end web frameworks like FastAPI
• Hands on experience building and deploying Open Source and Commercial LLMs like Llama, Claude etc., deep understanding of Prompt Engineering
• Deep, hands-on experience across a few back-end web frameworks like FastAPI, Django, Sanic etc
• Experience in leading teams and/or projects in a full-stack environment
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Experience designing large-scale software systems and writing high-quality code and tests. Which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience in deploying AI and search services (e.g. vector search) to single-tenant cloud environments.
• Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience in optimizing the performance and cost of cloud services.

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.

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