Senior Software Engineer, AlphaSense
Vector Search
$150-230k
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-230k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- A BS/MS/PhD degree in a relevant technical discipline, such as Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology, is highly desired, but equivalent experience will also be considered
- Hands-on experience with vector search engines and hybrid search solutions, ideally as part of a larger RAG architecture
- 4+ years of experience with open-source search engines (eg. Vespa, Quadrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- A strong software engineer who can design large-scale software systems, and write high-quality code and tests
- 6+ years of software development experience in building scalable, high-performing, and robust applications. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
- Proficient in Java and/or Python, and familiar with IAC technologies such as Terraform, ArgoCD, and Crossplane
- Experience producing high-quality software designs to support long-term maintainability and extensibility of systems and code
- Experience in indexing large-scale datasets
- An excellent communicator with strong organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills
- Experience working in a cross-functional distributed team environment
- Nice to have: Enterprise search experience and also experience from ranking and search relevancy tuning
- Nice to have: Knowledge about the Internals of Distributed systems, Search & vector search Eg: Sharding, replication, etc
What the job involves
- At AlphaSense, the Search & AI team is at the forefront of building the next generation of search infrastructure, crafting the platform and services that power our AI-driven search capabilities
- Are you a seasoned software engineer passionate about cutting-edge innovation in vector search? We’re looking for a visionary Senior Software Engineer to be part of our dynamic Vector Search team within the Search & AI Mission
- As a key member of the Vector Search team, you’ll spearhead the development of hybrid/vector search solutions that redefine what’s possible in AI-powered search
- Collaborate with a team of top-tier engineers, drive innovation, and deliver scalable solutions for our world-class platform. This is your opportunity to shape the future of search technology!
- Build out AlphaSense’s hybrid/vector search infrastructure and capabilities, drive a step-change improvement in search quality, and help launch/improve key products such as the AlphaSense Assistant
- Be the thought leader and domain expert for all things vector search for AlphaSense and drive innovation for AlphaSense in this area
- Work closely with the SRE and other team members to solve the incidents with the Infrastructure layer
- Architect, design, and implement highly scalable backend services powering AlphaSense Search & AI products
- Own and improve the reliability, latency, and cost of hybrid/vector search infrastructure and services in cloud environments
- Deliver software into production environments with excellent quality and full ownership
- Work with partner engineering teams to design and optimize our search and document processing pipeline
- Work closely with Product Management and Research to translate product requirements into software architectures
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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