Senior Engineering Manager, AI

About the Role

To support our growth, we are searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Platform team. This group builds and operates our core AI Gateway, serving as the critical high-throughput highway for all Large Language Model (LLM) traffic across the entire AlphaSense ecosystem. The right leader will bring deep experience running high-performance teams, a strong background in distributed system architecture, and hands-on familiarity with multi-vendor integrations. Superior communication and strategic collaboration skills are critical for managing expectations and aligning stakeholders across the entire R&D organization.

Who You Are

• Proven Engineering Leadership: Strong track record of managing and growing high-performing teams of senior and staff engineers, with a passion for developing technical leaders and aligning engineering objectives with business strategy.
• Enterprise Scale Experience: Seasoned background in designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems (specifically handling complex routing, caching, queueing, or rate limiting).
• Technical Thought Leadership: Ability to deeply engage in high-level architectural discussions, provide constructive technical direction, and deliver high-impact feedback during architectural reviews.
• Strategic Communication: Exceptional communication and partnership skills to align diverse engineering, product, and executive partners across the R&D organization.
• Modern Tooling & AI-First Mindset: Active embrace of AI tools in developer workflows, with an expectation for the team to leverage AI in their toolchains to maximize engineering velocity.
• Relevant Tech Stack Experience (Nice to Have): Experience in the applied AI space or working with frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM, or OpenRouter.
• Experience with orchestrators and proxies like Temporal, Envoy, or similar enterprise-grade gateway technologies.
• Experience with Python, Java, and highly distributed caching/queueing systems.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a highly talented team of up to 10 senior and sta