Distinguished Engineer

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the foundational technologies that underpin AlphaSense's AI and data platforms. You'll be entrusted with solving our most complex technical challenges, setting engineering standards, and amplifying our ability to scale systems, services, and teams globally.

Reporting directly to AlphaSense Executive Vice president of Engineering, this is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for a technical leader who thrives on building innovative capabilities that enable transformative product changes across the organization.

About the Role:

Architecture and Systems Design

• Design and evolve critical platform infrastructure to support AI workloads, search systems, data pipelines, and real-time services.
• Lead architectural initiatives focused on scalability, resilience, and efficiency across cloud-native systems.

Technical Leadership

• Define the technical vision and roadmap for the engineering organization in partnership with senior engineering and product leaders.
• Guide architectural decisions and long-term technology investments across infrastructure and services teams.

Mentorship and Influence

• Act as a mentor and technical advisor to senior engineers, promoting sound design principles and engineering excellence.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and technical rigor across the engineering organization.

Operational Excellence

• Champion best practices in system observability, performance tuning, security, and cost optimization.
• Lead initiatives to improve platform reliability and incident response frameworks.

Collaboration and Alignment

• Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and AI/ML teams to deliver cohesive platform capabilities.
• Align platform efforts with product delivery and business goals, ensuring long-term scalability and developer efficiency.

Who You Are:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent in infrastructure, platform, or systems roles.
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, service mesh, event-driven architectures).
• Strong track record of leading cross-team architectural initiatives in high-growth engineering environments.
• Expertise in system design, performance engineering, and fault-tolerant architecture.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively.
• Experience in AI/ML platforms, search infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.