Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent at Alphasense

Alphasense

Remote - United States·10h ago

LeadFull-timeRustReactAWSAIAPI

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer to join our Product & Engineering team at AlphaSense. This role focuses on improving our GenSearch system, which delivers high-confidence answers across multiple domains using AI. The engineer will work at the intersection of AI systems, financial data infrastructure, and product-grade web development.

Key Responsibilities

→Reduce latency in AI-powered financial answers
→Simplify fragmented and legacy-heavy architecture
→Improve cross-dataset querying and screening
→Ship new datasets and product capabilities without increasing systemic complexity
→Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services
→Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline
→Drive technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams

Requirements

✓12+ years building and operating production systems
✓Experience operating at a Staff or Principal level
✓Proven ability to simplify complex systems and reduce architectural entropy
✓Strong background in distributed systems and performance optimization
✓Experience building AI-integrated systems (LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, evaluation)
✓Comfortable working across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React)
✓Experienced designing APIs and durable service contracts
✓Effective at driving cross-team technical initiatives