Asana
Senior Staff Engineer, AI
$297K–$350K
San Francisco +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in production software; 3+ years building production systems with LLMs or machine learning.
About the job
Sets technical direction and leads cross-team architecture and delivery for Asana’s AI platform, agent systems, and AI products.
What you'll do
- Define AI organization technical vision and architecture, and lead strategic initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Partner across functions to deliver reliable AI products and establish AI quality evaluation, monitoring, and feedback practices.
- Guide technical and model strategy, mentor senior engineers, and influence AI strategy with company leadership.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building production software, including significant time as a technical lead spanning multiple teams.
- 3+ years building production systems with LLMs or machine learning.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and reliability, latency, and cost challenges at scale.
- Experience leading architecture and initiatives across organizational boundaries; fluency with foundation models, agent frameworks, tool use, and evaluation methods.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-tenant enterprise SaaS and AI security, privacy, and data governance.
Pay
$297,000 - $350,000 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, Work Graph
AI focus
Leads AI platform, agent systems and orchestration, context and memory, enterprise-scale inference, and AI product quality evaluation.
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