Senior Engineering Manager, AI

AlphaSense; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 275,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform team. This leader will drive high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, manage a distributed staff, and guide multi-vendor integrations across the R&D organization.

You will collaborate with product, AI research, and executive partners to align the gateway roadmap with core product features and scale operations to meet ambitious growth targets.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of senior and staff engineers.
• Experience designing high-throughput distributed systems.
• Strong architectural review contributions.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Comfort using AI-first tooling in developer workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor up to 10 senior and staff engineers across North America.
• Foster a high-performance culture of technical excellence and delivery.
• Own strategy and architecture of the enterprise AI Gateway with high throughput.
• Guide multi-vendor orchestration across 6+ vendors for latency/cost optimization.
• Partner with product management, AI research, and executive leads.
• Define governance and cost-tracking telemetry across the AI Platform.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Distributed Systems

Architectural Review

Strategic Communication

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

LiteLLM

OpenRouter

Temporal

Envoy

Python

Java

Job description

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit Come join us.

About the Team

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-throughput highway for all Large Language Model (LLM) traffic across the entire AlphaSense ecosystem.

About the Role

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.

Who You Are

• 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 You'll Do

• 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.

Compensation

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below. You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

• Compensation Range$275,000—$375,000 USD

Equal Employment Opportunity

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense's commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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