Staff Software Engineer, AI Teammates
San Francisco · USD 248,000-282,000 / year · 2+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 248,000-282,000 / year · Base salary
About Asana
- Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.
- We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- #LI-Hybrid #LI-AS2
About the role
- AI Teammates are Asana’s flagship AI innovation, consisting of autonomous agents embedded directly into enterprise workflows that reason, act, and proactively drive work forward.
- The AI Teammates Platform (AITP) team owns the execution engine and platform layer that makes these AI Teammates effective, reliable, and scalable.
- The Staff Software Engineer will drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Teammates Platform, bridging frontier AI capability with enterprise-grade software engineering.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy for the AI Teammates execution engine, tool orchestration, and platform APIs within Asana.
- Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, setting high standards for clean architecture, systems reliability, and evaluation methodologies.
- Be a key collaborator with other groups across Engineering and a technical counterpart to the AI Teammates team’s Engineering Manager.
- Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand agentic work patterns and propose elegant solutions.
- Architect and own the composable platform foundation, partnering with product engineering teams to enable them to build agentic capabilities in a self-serve manner.
- Oversee the execution of high-impact technical initiatives including advanced proactivity, MCP integrations, model evals, latency tuning, and cost optimization.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience working in large codebases, with strong backend, systems, or reliability fundamentals.
- 2+ years leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead, with a track record of driving technical strategy, timeline planning, and risk mitigation.
- Experience or deep interest in Applied AI / Agentic Systems: Familiarity with agent orchestration, tool integration, model evaluation frameworks, RAG, or production LLM observability.
- Quick learner and comfortable transitioning between different contexts and codebases.
- Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others.
- Passionate about mentoring engineers at all skill levels and able to identify technical growth opportunities.
- Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture and foster an environment of psychological safety.
Benefits
- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
- Career coaching & support
- Inclusive family building benefits
- Long-term savings or retirement plans
- In-office culinary options to cater to dietary preferences
Workplace
- Office-centric hybrid schedule based in the San Francisco office.
- Standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
- Option to work from home on Wednesdays.
Skills
- Agent Orchestration
- Tool Integration
- Model Evaluation Frameworks
- RAG
- Production LLM Observability
- MCP Integrations
- Model Evals
- Latency Tuning
- Cost Optimization
