Senior/Staff Design Engineer

We are seeking Senior and Staff Design Engineers to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense's product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role, where you'll lead through craft, systems thinking, and technical excellence, building AI-powered experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and essential to our customers' workflows. You will operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, translating complex, data-rich problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. As a senior member of the Design team, you'll act as a multiplier—mentoring others, guiding technical and design decisions, and strengthening the connection between user needs, business goals, and engineering realities.

Responsibilities

Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex, AI-powered workflows to life; Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production; Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions; Advance AlphaSense's design system as a core piece of product infrastructure; Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements; Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience; Drive cross-functional alignment by helping teams navigate tradeoffs; Apply an AI-first mindset to how you design and build; Partner with product and engineering teams to shape how intelligent capabilities are integrated into real user workflows

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline; Bachelor's degree or higher; Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and evolving design systems; Experience building AI and agentic experiences; Expertise with modern AI technologies and ability to apply them to design problems (e.g., MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills); Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams; Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, end-to-end customer workflows, and the ability to turn new users into habitual users; Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

Degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction preferred