Asana
Senior Staff Engineer, AI
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- The scope spans multiple engineering teams across San Francisco, New York, Vancouver, and Warsaw.
- This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.
- The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Security, and Legal to take ambitious AI products from prototype to reliable, trusted enterprise features
- Lead strategic initiatives that span multiple teams, such as agent runtime and orchestration, context and memory for agents grounded in the Work Graph, and reliable, cost-efficient LLM inference at enterprise scale
- Make and guide high-stakes technical decisions on model and vendor strategy, build versus buy, and shared platform abstractions, and make sure those decisions age well
- Mentor staff and senior engineers, grow tech leads across the AI organization, and raise the bar for design and architecture reviews
- Able to communicate clearly at every level, from design reviews with engineers to strategy discussions with executives, and to bridge product, business, and technical language
- Career coaching & support
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building production software, including significant time as a technical lead whose work spanned multiple teams
- Deep experience with distributed systems and the reliability, latency, and cost challenges of running them at scale
- Experience with multi-tenant enterprise SaaS, and with security, privacy, and data governance for AI systems, is a plus
Compensation
- Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission.
Benefits
- 3+ years building production systems with LLMs or machine learning, such as agents, retrieval, evaluation, or inference infrastructure
- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
- Inclusive family building benefits
- Long-term savings or retirement plans
- Define the technical vision and architecture for Asana's AI Org that includes AI platform, Agent systems and Studio in partnership with engineering and product leadership
Company info
- Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration.
- Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster.
- Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation.
- We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly.
- With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.
- We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive.
- Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company.
- Join Asana's Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.
- We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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