Staff Software Engineer Machine Learning

With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and reliability of our global financial data extraction and normalization platform. This system ingests filings across formats (HTML, PDF, APIs, spreadsheets), extracts and standardizes financial data using a combination of AI and deterministic systems, and delivers trusted, traceable outputs at scale to downstream financial services teams and customers.
This role owns the self-sourcing and extraction foundation used by multiple teams across the organization. Today, human validation is used as a safety net. You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, AI-driven extraction, data quality, and platform architecture, raising the technical bar and reshaping how we build reliable systems.
10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems

• Proven experience designing data ingestion, extraction, or processing systems at scale
• Data platforms and pipelines
• AI/ML-powered extraction or classification systems
• Platform or infrastructure engineering

Demonstrated ability to design trustworthy systems that combine probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches
Track record of technical leadership across teams without formal people management
Passion for using AI responsibly and effectively to deliver scalable, high-confidence systems
Experience with document understanding, NLP, or financial data extraction
Experience building provenance, lineage, or confidence-scoring systems
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks
Own the architecture and evolution of our large-scale data extraction and normalization platform
Design systems that process hundreds of thousands of records across heterogeneous sources (PDF, HTML, APIs, XLS) with high reliability
Define and implement strategies to minimize human-in-the-loop validation through AI-based validation, confidence scoring, provenance tracking, and deterministic safeguards
Balance AI-driven approaches with procedural and rules-based systems where they improve reliability and explainabilityIdentify and remediate architectural and operational bottlenecks impacting scale, accuracy, and developer velocity
Act as the technical authority to block poor designs, redesign critical systems, and introduce new platforms or tooling when necessary
Partner with product and downstream consumers to define quality bars, SLAs, and success metrics
Serve as a technical escalation point for production issues, reliability failures, and systemic risks
Mentor senior engineers, shape technical culture, and raise expectations for system design and execution
Contribute to long-term technical strategy while remaining hands-on with critical implementations
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

143,000—$197,000 CAD

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