Senior/Staff Design Engineer

The role

This senior individual contributor role involves building AI-powered experiences at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy. You will create high-fidelity coded prototypes, lead technical design discussions, and advance the company's design system.

What you will do

• Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models.
• Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production.
• Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions.
• Advance the design system as core product infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to research and evaluate user requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development to advocate for design quality.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience.
• Apply an AI-first mindset to design and build using modern AI tooling.
• Partner with teams to shape how intelligent capabilities are integrated into user workflows.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline.
• A 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

• A degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction

About the company

AlphaSense is an AI platform for market intelligence and workflow orchestration. The platform uses domain-specific AI and a vast content universe to help organizations drive faster, more confident business and finance decisions.