Principal Design Engineer

You'll play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense's product experience as a senior individual contributor who leads 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. Rather than just prototyping 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 by mentoring others, guiding technical and design decisions, and strengthening the connection between user needs, business goals, and engineering realities.

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 and make architectural decisions
• Guide cross-team implementation efforts
• Advance AlphaSense's design system as a core piece of product infrastructure
• Define scalable patterns and accelerate teams building across AI-native experiences
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements
• Translate user requirements into effective designs that meet user and business needs
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development to advocate for design quality and fidelity
• Mentor designers and engineers and raise the bar for craft
• Serve as connective tissue across design, product, and engineering to navigate tradeoffs

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 (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and evolving design systems
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences and leveraging AI to speed up the design and development process
• Expertise with modern AI technologies such as MCP, Claude Code, Codex, and Skills applied to design problems
• 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

Benefits

• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• Distributed company with flexible working arrangements, 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
• Home internet
• Remote work equipment
• Lunch benefit