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At AlphaSense, GenSearch is a production, customer-facing generative AI system delivering high-confidence answers across multiple domains. Our team owns the financial data agent within GenSearch — connecting AI reasoning to structured financial datasets — as well as the financial data web experiences that power fundamentals, M&A, screening, and other core capabilities. We are hiring a hands-on Principal Engineer to help us: 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. This role sits at the intersection of AI systems, financial data infrastructure, and product-grade web development.
Job Responsibility
Improve AI & Performance
Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services
Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline
Improve reliability and correctness of AI-backed financial responses
Simplify Architecture
Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship
Build & Evolve Web Products
Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences
Define durable contracts between AI-generated outputs and frontend consumers
Ensure performance and usability at both API and product layers
Lead Across Teams
Drive technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
Align stakeholders on service boundaries and system design decisions
Raise the bar for system design, reliability, and operational rigor
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