Staff Software Engineer, AI
$490k - $556k • Warsaw • Contract
Posted 5mo ago
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Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Contract
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
The AI Retrieval team is responsible for powering Asana's AI features by identifying and delivering relevant work graph content to LLM context windows. This work enables AI features that understand user work, both within and outside of Asana, and take action based on that understanding. The team also manages Asana's traditional search experience. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will build and optimize the systems that make Asana's AI smart and responsive, tackling complex challenges in search and retrieval to enhance speed, cost-efficiency, and quality, while expanding capabilities to new data sources.
Responsibilities
- Reduce the latency and cost of the retrieval system for faster and more efficient AI features.
- 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 such as embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in New York City and Warsaw-based peers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment.
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies.
- 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.
Benefits
- Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and RSUs)
- Contract of Employment (UoP)
- Option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage
- Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)
- Breakfast and lunch catering on office days
- Vacation allowance
- Career growth budget
- Home office setup budget
- Gym/Fitness card
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot
- Mental Health Support in Modern Health
- Group life insurance
- MacBooks with all necessary accessories