Senior / Staff Design Engineer

About the role

AlphaSense is looking for Senior and Staff Design Engineers for its Design team, a strategic driver of product differentiation in an AI-native platform. This is a senior individual contributor role at the intersection of design, engineering and product strategy, mentoring others and guiding technical and design decisions while building AI-powered experiences.

Key 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, shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking and technical rigor.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions and guide cross-team implementation.
• Advance the design system as core product infrastructure, defining scalable patterns and consistency.
• Work with product managers and engineers to research user requirements and ensure the final product meets user and business needs.
• Advocate for design quality and fidelity throughout development, and help teams balance technical constraints, business goals and user experience.
• Apply an AI-first approach, using modern AI tooling, agent-driven workflows and code-based prototyping to accelerate iteration.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems or a related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree or higher; a degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology or HCI is preferred.
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design and customer workflows.

Required skills

• Modern front-end technologies such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Design systems and hands-on experience with them.
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences, and using AI tools such as MCP, Claude Code, Codex and Skills to speed up design and development.

What we offer

• Distributed work with flexible arrangements, usually meeting at the Helsinki office once a week.
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo.
• Two weeks of vacation granted up front, plus access to a gym room, gaming room, free parking, mobile phone, lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet and remote work equipment.