Senior Staff Engineer, AI

Asana is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to set technical direction and architecture across its AI organization. The role leads cross-team AI initiatives, guides strategic technical decisions, and mentors engineers to build reliable AI products and platform capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define the technical vision and architecture for Asana's AI Org that includes AI platform, Agent systems and Studio in partnership with engineering and product leadership
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Security, and Legal to take ambitious AI products from prototype to reliable, trusted enterprise features
• Lead strategic initiatives that span multiple teams, such as agent runtime and orchestration, context and memory for agents grounded in the Work Graph, and reliable, cost-efficient LLM inference at enterprise scale
• Set the bar for how Asana measures AI quality, including offline and online evaluation, production monitoring, and the feedback loops that turn real usage into better agents
• Make and guide high-stakes technical decisions on model and vendor strategy, build versus buy, and shared platform abstractions, and make sure those decisions age well
• Influence R&D-wide AI strategy by bringing a grounded view of the model and agent landscape to senior leadership
• Mentor staff and senior engineers, grow tech leads across the AI organization, and raise the bar for design and architecture reviews
• Represent Asana's AI engineering work externally through talks, writing, and the technical community, and help attract senior talent