Staff AI Platform Engineer
At a glance
Senior ML Platform & Ops role at AlphaSense. New York · $203,000–$304,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Design distributed services for AI agents handling thousands of requests per hour, balancing uptime, speed and operating cost
- Set up testing, monitoring and deployment pipelines that surface problems before customers encounter them
- Own the AI platform’s technical direction and make architecture choices for its long-term development
- Work with machine learning engineers and researchers to bring new AI capabilities into production without destabilizing services
- Coach engineers and lead technical work that improves how the team builds production systems
What you bring
- At least seven years building and running distributed systems in production
- A record of improving service uptime, including taking systems from frequent outages to 99.9% or better
- Strong experience with microservices, Kubernetes-based containers and infrastructure defined as code
- You can lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, debug production failures and write code across the stack
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced engineer who wants to shape an AI platform’s architecture and mentor other engineers. You’ll work closely with machine learning engineers and researchers to make AI capabilities production-ready.
From the employer
About AlphaSense:
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.
About the Team:
Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.
At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.
About the Role
AlphaSense is seeking an experienced engineering leader to transform how we build and operate AI-powered systems at scale. You'll join a team of brilliant engineers who've built cutting-edge AI applications, and your mission will be to bring world-class engineering practices that ensure these innovations run reliably for our enterprise customers.
This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer who thrives on building robust platforms, mentoring talented teams, and establishing engineering excellence. You'll have significant autonomy to shape our technical architecture while working with frontier AI models and agentic systems that power market intelligence for the world's leading companies.
What You'll Do
- Architect for Scale: Design and implement distributed systems that power AI agents processing thousands of requests per hour, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
- Build Engineering Excellence: Establish comprehensive testing strategies, observability systems, and CI/CD pipelines that catch issues before customers do
- Lead Through Expertise: Mentor a team of smart, motivated engineers, sharing your experience in building production systems that don't break at 3 AM
- Drive Platform Evolution: Own the technical roadmap for our AI platform, making architectural decisions that will shape our systems for years to come
- Bridge AI and Engineering: Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to productionize cutting-edge AI capabilities while maintaining system stability
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 7+ years building and operating distributed systems in production
- Track record of improving system reliability (taking services from frequent outages to 99.9%+ uptime)
- Deep expertise in modern engineering practices: microservices, containerization (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong coding skills with ability to work across the stack
- Excellence in debugging production issues and implementing comprehensive observability
- History of making pragmatic trade-offs between perfect and shipped
Preferred:
- Experience with LLM applications, agent frameworks, or AI/ML infrastructure
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, vector databases
- Background at high-growth companies or modern engineering cultures
- Experience with multi-model AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)
Impact You'll Have
Within your first year, you'll transform how we build and operate software. You'll reduce incidents, establish testing and observability standards that become part of our DNA, and build platforms that enable other engineers to ship faster and safer. Most importantly, you'll elevate an entire team of engineers, sharing the expertise that only comes from years of building systems at scale.
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.
Compensation Range$203,000—$304,000 USDAlphaSense 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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