Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaSense is a company that empowers professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform team, focusing on the architecture and operations of their enterprise AI Gateway, while managing a high-performing team of engineers.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Define and champion software engineering best practices, architectural standards, and token-based cost-tracking telemetry across the AI Platform organization
Skills
- 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
- Experience with Python, Java, and highly distributed caching/queueing systems
- 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
Benefits
- You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.
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