Staff Software Engineer

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 www.alpha-sense.com . Come join us. About the Team: Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search. At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves. About the Role: We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and reliability of our global financial data extraction and normalization platform. This system ingests filings across formats (HTML, PDF, APIs, spreadsheets), extracts and standardizes financial data using a combination of AI and deterministic systems, and delivers trusted, traceable outputs at scale to downstream financial services teams and customers. This role owns the self-sourcing and extraction foundation used by multiple teams across the organization. Today, human validation is used as a safety net. Your mission is to systematically reduce human dependency by increasing system correctness, confidence, and trust, without sacrificing speed or scalability. You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, AI-driven extraction, data quality, and platform architecture, raising the technical bar and reshaping how we build reliable systems. Who You Are: • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems • Proven experience designing data ingestion, extraction, or processing systems at scale • Deep expertise in one or more of: • Distributed systems • Data platforms and pipelines • AI/ML-powered extraction or classification systems • Platform or infrastructure engineering • Demonstrated ability to design trustworthy systems that combine probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches • Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, failure modes, and iterative hardening • Experience reducing operational or human overhead through better system design • Track record of technical leadership across teams without formal people management • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity where none exists • Passion for using AI responsibly and effectively to deliver scalable, high-confidence systems Nice to Have • • Experience with document understanding, NLP, or financial data extraction • Experience building provenance, lineage, or confidence-scoring systems • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks • Experience shaping or owning internal platforms used by multiple teams What You’ll Do: • Own the architecture and evolution of our large-scale data extraction and normalization platform • Design systems that process h