AlphaSense
Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent
$246K–$339K
Remote - United States +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Feb 20, 2026
- Location
- Remote - United States
Remote - Canada - Experience
- 12+ years building and operating production systems; experience operating at a Staff or Principal level.
About the job
Leads engineering for the financial data agent and web experiences in GenSearch, improving AI answer performance and reliability while simplifying systems and expanding financial data capabilities.
What you'll do
- Optimize AI orchestration and improve the performance, reliability, and correctness of financial responses.
- Simplify dataset and service architecture while establishing scalable integration patterns.
- Build backend and frontend financial data products and lead technical initiatives across teams.
What they ask for
- 12+ years building and operating production systems.
- Experience operating at Staff or Principal level.
- Strong background in distributed systems and performance optimization.
- Experience building AI-integrated systems, including LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, and evaluation.
Pay
$246,000 — $339,000 USD base salary
Tools
LLM, React
AI focus
Improve a production generative AI system by optimizing LLM workflows with structured financial datasets and services, and improving the reliability and correctness of AI-backed answers.
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