Senior Software Engineer, AI Retrieval

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration with 13+ offices worldwide. The AI Retrieval team powers the intelligence behind Asana's AI features by finding relevant work graph content and delivering it to LLM context windows. The team also owns Asana's traditional search experience.

• 6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment
• Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies with willingness to learn and leverage them
• Hands-on experience in search engineering, including OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
• Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval
• Experience in an Applied AI role is a plus

• Reduce the latency and cost of the retrieval system to make AI features faster and more efficient
• Improve the quality and relevance of search results
• Expand the retrieval system's capabilities to query new Asana objects and third-party data sources
• Build and optimize search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Contribute to ML-powered features like embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in New York City and Warsaw

This role is based in the Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in office; Wednesday work from home option; Friday work from home depends on work type and recruiter guidance.