Principal Design Engineer
AlphaSense
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About the role
Role Overview
Principal Design Engineer at AlphaSense (Full remote). You will define and build high-quality product experiences by translating complex data and AI capabilities into intuitive, user-centered workflows. As a senior leader on the Design team, you’ll mentor others and help raise the bar for design craft and collaboration.
Key Missions
- Lead design and development of high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models for complex, AI-powered workflows.
- Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production, ensuring outcomes meet both user and business needs.
- Lead within the Design team: mentor designers and engineers, provide constructive feedback, and strengthen a collaborative design culture.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to shape technical and design decisions.
- Improve product usability by applying end-to-end customer workflows and user-centered design principles.
- Help “turn new users into habitual users” through strong experience design.
Requirements
- Production shipping experience and proven ability to influence technical and design choices across teams.
- Track record of project leadership, mentorship, and delivering constructive feedback.
- Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong user-centered design skills and ability to map customer workflows end-to-end.
- 12+ years of experience in product design, UX/design, front-end engineering, design systems, or related.
- Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React.
- Experience working with and evolving design systems.
- Ability to build AI and agentic experiences, leveraging AI to speed up and augment design/development processes.
- Expertise applying modern AI technologies to design problems (examples mentioned: MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills).
- Bachelor’s degree or higher (degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or HCI preferred).
Nice-to-Haves
- Demonstrated experience specifically with AI/agentic design and production-grade AI-assisted workflows.
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is an AI-native platform that helps companies make high-stakes decisions. It turns complex information and AI capabilities into product experiences for business users, combining product design, engineering, and AI-powered workflows.
Scraped 5/12/2026