AlphaSense
Principal Software Engineer
$246K–$339K
Remote - United States +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jan 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote - United States
Remote - Canada - Experience
- 15+ years building and operating large-scale production systems.
About the job
Leads the architecture and reliability of a global platform that extracts and normalizes financial data from heterogeneous sources for downstream teams and customers.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve the large-scale data extraction and normalization platform.
- Improve accuracy and trust while reducing human validation through AI-based validation, confidence scoring, provenance tracking, and deterministic safeguards.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, address reliability and scaling issues, and mentor senior engineers.
What they ask for
- 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, or platform or infrastructure engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic AI and deterministic approaches.
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, failure modes, and iterative hardening.
Nice to have
- Experience with document understanding, NLP, or financial data extraction.
- Experience building provenance, lineage, or confidence-scoring systems.
Pay
$246,000 — $339,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI, HTML, PDF, APIs, XLS, NLP
AI focus
Uses AI alongside deterministic systems to extract, validate, and classify financial data, with the goal of improving correctness and confidence and reducing human validation.
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