Senior Engineering Manager, AlphaSense
A.I
$275-375k
Market intelligence and search platform
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Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$275-375k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- This leader will bring deep experience running high-performance teams, a strong background in distributed system architecture, and hands-on familiarity with multi-vendor integrations
- Superior communication and strategic collaboration skills are critical for managing expectations and aligning stakeholders across the entire R&D organization
- Proven Engineering Leadership: Strong track record of managing and growing high-performing teams of senior and staff engineers, with a passion for developing technical leaders and aligning engineering objectives with business strategy
- Enterprise Scale Experience: Seasoned background in designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems (specifically handling complex routing, caching, queueing, or rate limiting)
- Technical Thought Leadership: Ability to deeply engage in high-level architectural discussions, provide constructive technical direction, and deliver high-impact feedback during architectural reviews
- Strategic Communication: Exceptional communication and partnership skills to align diverse engineering, product, and executive partners across the R&D organization
- Modern Tooling & AI-First Mindset: Active embrace of AI tools in developer workflows, with an expectation for the team to leverage AI in their toolchains to maximize engineering velocity
- Relevant Tech Stack Experience (Nice to Have):
- Experience in the applied AI space or working with frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM, or OpenRouter
- Experience with orchestrators and proxies like Temporal, Envoy, or similar enterprise-grade gateway technologies
- Experience with Python, Java, and highly distributed caching/queueing systems
What the job involves
- To support our growth, we are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform team. This group builds and operates our core AI Gateway, serving as the critical high
- Strategic Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a highly talented team of up to 10 senior and staff software engineers (mostly distributed across North America)
- Foster a high-performance culture of technical excellence, predictable delivery, and career growth
- High-Scale Operations & Scaling: Own the strategy and architecture of our enterprise AI Gateway - currently processing up to 1 Trillion LLM tokens per week with a projected 10x growth surge driven by agentic workflows (such as SuperAnalyst) - while ensuring high availability, sub-millisecond routing, caching, queueing, and robust fallback mechanisms
- Multi-Vendor Orchestration: Strategically guide the integration, evaluation, and management of 6+ major LLM vendors and 50+ distinct models, optimizing for latency, cost, and reliability across different providers
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with product management, AI research teams, and executive engineering leads to align the gateway's roadmap with core product features and organizational goals
- Technical Governance: Define and champion software engineering best practices, architectural standards, and token-based cost-tracking telemetry across the AI Platform organization
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 has now set 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Jun 2026
$350m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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