Senior Software Engineer

AlphaSense is hiring for the role of Senior Software Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Architect, design, and implement highly scalable services for AlphaSense AI and Search products
• Improve the reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency of AI and search services in cloud environments.
• Deploy AI and Search services to both SaaS and single-tenant cloud environments.
• Translate product requirements into software architectures in collaboration with Product Management.
• Solve challenges that come along with working with large language models (high latency, variance, etc.), leading to a defensive, fault-first mindset.
• Provide technical leadership and implement best practices for software development

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering on complex, data-intensive applications with professional, real-world experience with applications at scale
• Experience designing large-scale software systems and writing high-quality code and tests. Which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production.
• Deep Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Production Experience with Applied LLM/NLP,  developing and deploying solutions using NLP frameworks like LangChain, HuggingFace, back-end web frameworks like FastAPI, Django, Sanic etc
• Hands on experience deploying Open Source and Commercial LLMs like Llama, Claude etc., deep understanding of Prompt Engineering
• Experience in leading teams and/or projects in a full-stack environment
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Experience in deploying AI and search services (e.g. vector search) to single-tenant cloud environments.
• Experience in performance and cost optimization of services, debugging multi-cloud deployments etc.