# Staff Software Engineer, AI

**Company**: Asana
**Location**: Warsaw
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 40,750 - 46,333 PLN gross per month
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/asana/jobs/7978671?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The AI Retrieval team at Asana powers the intelligence behind Asana's AI features by finding relevant work graph content and delivering it to LLM context windows.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Retrieval team, you'll build the systems that make Asana's AI smart and responsive.

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

- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

- 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 (and the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author's rights usage in respect of applicable roles)

- Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)

- Breakfast and lunch catering on the days that you work from the office

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- OpenSearch
- ElasticSearch
- AI
- machine learning
- search engineering

### Nice to have
- Applied AI
- embeddings
- semantic search

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