Senior Software Engineer (AI Applications)

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s 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 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role:

Seeking a passionate Senior Engineer for our Content engineering team. This team focuses on large-scale content processing using cutting-edge technologies. This role involves leveraging NLP and LLMs to extract insights from multi-modal documents, enhancing AlphaSense Search and AI products. You will collaborate with skilled engineers to develop scalable solutions for our advanced AI-powered search platform.

Requirements:

      Must have 

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, primarily with Python
• Ideally, you possess an advanced degree (Bachelor's / Master's)  in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, but equivalent industry experience may be considered
• 2+ years of NLP problem-solving experience. Proficiency in Applied LLM, developing and deploying NLP/LLM solutions using frameworks like LangChain, HuggingFace, and backend web frameworks like FastAPI.
• Familiarity with experimenting with Open Source and Commercial LLMs like Llama, Claude etc., deep understanding of Prompt Engineering.
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.

        Great to have 

• Experience in async processing of data at scale.
• Expertise on core engineering skills - Cloud, microservice architecture, caching, queuing.
• Familiarity with concepts/tools as Docker, k8s, VCS, CI/CD
• Previous experience in data extraction from specific domains (e.g., financial reports, news).

Responsibilities:

• Deploy LLM based production grade solutions
•  Fine-tune and adapt SOTA LLMs for specialized data extraction tasks. Develop innovative prompting strategies and architectures to maximize performance on confidential business documents.
• Solve Engineering challenges that come along with LLM solutions such as high latency, non-deterministic output etc.
• Implement and scale data extraction pipelines capable of processing high volumes of complex documents with high accuracy and efficiency.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into machine learning architectures
• Own systems end-to-end including(but not limited to) design, code, monitoring, observability for Engineering Projects and training, testing, deployment and iteration for model training projects

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.

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