Principal Design Engineer

📋 Description

• 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, technical rigor, and a deep understanding of customer workflows.
• 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, enabling consistency, and accelerating teams building across AI-native experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements, translate them into effective designs, and ensure that the final product meets both user and business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience by championing design fidelity and attention to detail throughout the development lifecycle.

🎯 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. A degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React).
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design decisions across teams.
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences, and leveraging AI to speed up end-to-end design and development.
• Expertise with modern AI technologies (e.g., MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills).

🎁 Benefits

• Generous benefits program
• Equity options
• Equal opportunity employer
• Reasonable accommodations for qualified employees
• Collaborative, inclusive design culture