Principal Engineer, AI-Driven Data Extraction Platform

AlphaSense; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Generous benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and reliability of its global financial data extraction platform. You will drive ingestion across HTML, PDF, APIs, and spreadsheets, combining AI with deterministic systems to deliver trusted outputs at scale for downstream teams.

You will reduce human dependency, raise system correctness, and partner with product to define quality bars and SLAs while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical strategy.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
• Proven experience designing data ingestion, extraction, or processing systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, data platforms and pipelines, AI/ML-powered extraction or classification systems.
• Experience reducing operational or human overhead through better system design.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of our large-scale data extraction and normalization platform.
• Design systems processing hundreds of thousands of records across heterogeneous sources with high reliability.
• Minimize human-in-the-loop validation through AI-based validation, confidence scoring, provenance tracking, and deterministic safeguards.
• Establish system contracts for correctness, traceability, and confidence.
• Identify bottlenecks affecting scale, accuracy, and developer velocity.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to long-term technical strategy.

Skills

15+ years experience in large-scale S/

Data ingestion and processing at scale

Distributed systems

AI/ML-powered extraction

Platform/infrastructure engineering

Reliability and observability

Tools

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

AlphaSense seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and reliability of its global financial data extraction platform. You will drive ingestion across HTML, PDF, APIs, and spreadsheets, combining AI with deterministic systems to deliver trusted outputs at scale for downstream teams.

You will reduce human dependency, raise system correctness, and partner with product to define quality bars and SLAs while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical strategy.