Principal Design Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense's product experience as a senior individual contributor, leading through craft, systems thinking, and technical excellence to build AI-powered experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and essential to customers' workflows. You'll operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, translating complex, data-rich problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. You won't just prototype ideas; you'll define how they are built, scaled, and experienced in the product. 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.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline
- A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction
- 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 and leveraging AI to speed up and augment the design and development process
- 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 and end-to-end customer workflows
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in project leadership, mentorship, and providing constructive feedback
Responsibilities
- Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex, AI-powered workflows to life and clearly communicate product direction
- Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production, shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking and technical rigor
- Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and guide cross-team implementation efforts
- Advance AlphaSense's design system as a core piece of product infrastructure, defining scalable patterns and enabling consistency
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements and translate them into effective designs
- Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience
- Mentor designers and engineers and raise the bar for craft and collaborative design culture
- Serve as connective tissue across design, product, and engineering to navigate tradeoffs and deliver high-quality outcomes