Senior Software Engineer, AI Retrieval

About the role

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 action. We also own Asana's traditional search experience.

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

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment
• 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

Qualifications

• Curiosity about how AI and technology can solve problems and a desire to use it regularly in your work
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

Skills

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or C++
• Experience with NLP and information retrieval techniques
• Knowledge of search engines and indexing strategies
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

Benefits

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. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

Pay

The estimated base salary range is between $202,000 - $223,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.

Schedule

This role is based in our New York City office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do, and your recruiter can share more about the in-office requirements.