Senior/Staff Design Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You'll 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. 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

• 10+ 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 (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 such as MCP, Claude Code, Codex, and 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

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, make architectural decisions, and guide cross-team implementation efforts
• Advance AlphaSense's design system as a core piece of product infrastructure
• 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
• Drive cross-functional alignment by helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience
• Apply an AI-first mindset by leveraging modern AI tooling, agent-driven workflows, and code-based prototyping
• Partner with product and engineering teams to shape how intelligent capabilities are integrated into real user workflows

Benefits

• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• Flexible working arrangements as a distributed company, meeting at the office once a week
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, with possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room and gaming room
• Free parking near the office
• Mobile phone and mobile plan
• Lunch benefit
• Home internet
• Remote work equipment