Staff AI Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States On-site
$203,000–$304,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
AlphaSense is seeking an experienced engineering leader to transform how we build and operate AI-powered systems at scale. You'll join a team of brilliant engineers who've built cutting-edge AI applications, and your mission will be to bring world-class engineering practices that ensure these innovations run reliably for our enterprise customers. This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer who thrives on building robust platforms, mentoring talented teams, and establishing engineering excellence. You'll have significant autonomy to shape our technical architecture while working with frontier AI models and agentic systems that power market intelligence for the world's leading companies.
What you'll bring
- 7+ years building and operating distributed systems in production
- Track record of improving system reliability (taking services from frequent outages to 99.9%+ uptime)
- Deep expertise in modern engineering practices: microservices, containerization (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong coding skills with ability to work across the stack
- Excellence in debugging production issues and implementing comprehensive observability
- History of making pragmatic trade-offs between perfect and shipped
- Experience with LLM applications, agent frameworks, or AI/ML infrastructure
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, vector databases
- Background at high-growth companies or modern engineering cultures
- Experience with multi-model AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)