Senior Software Engineer, AI Retrieval

Asana•New York, NY

16d•$202,000 - $223,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Our work enables AI features that truly understand your work—both within and outside of Asana—and use that understanding to take take action. We also own Asana's traditional search experience. As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Retrieval team, you'll build the systems that make Asana's AI smart and responsive. You'll tackle challenging problems in search and retrieval, working to improve the speed, cost-efficiency, and quality of our systems while expanding their capabilities to new data sources.

Requirements

6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment
Curiosity about how AI and technology can solve problems and a desire to use it regularly in your work
Hands-on experience in search engineering, including with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval

Nice To Haves

Experience in an Applied AI role is a plus

Responsibilities

Reduce the latency and cost of our retrieval system, making Asana's AI features faster and more efficient
Improve the quality and relevance of search results to help users find exactly what they need
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 while building strong relationships with your Warsaw-based peers