Staff Software Engineer, AI Retrieval

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration with offices worldwide, focused on building technology to drive positive change.

• 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 with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
• Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval
• Experience in an Applied AI role is a plus

• Reduce latency and cost of the retrieval system to make AI features faster and more efficient
• Improve 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 like embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search
• Collaborate with partners in New York City and Warsaw-based peers

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