Senior Applied AI Engineer (Search & RAG)

Asana is the work management platform for human + AI collaboration. It helps organizations bring people, processes, and AI together to plan, track, and deliver work with clarity and speed. Powered by the Work Graph®, Asana gives teams the context and control they need to stay aligned, keep work moving, and scale impact. More than 170,000 organizations — including Accenture, Amazon, Anthropic, Morningstar, and Suzuki — run their most critical work on Asana.

• 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
• 6 years of experience in a similar position
• Knowledge of AI, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ML, and Embeddings
• Language skills in Polish and English

• 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 retrieval system capabilities to query new Asana objects and third-party data sources
• Build and optimize search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Contribute to ML-powered features such as embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in New York City and peers in Warsaw