AI-Powered Developer Tools Engineer

Asana; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long‑term savings or retirement plans

In‑office culinary options

Job summary

Asana seeks a Software Engineer to enhance our AI developer experience and empower engineers to move faster. You will work on the AI Developer Productivity team, delivering AI-powered tools across editors, IDEs, CLIs, code review, and local/cloud coding agents in a New York City hybrid setting.

We value hands-on work with AI-assisted development, scalable agent architectures, and reusable skills. The role offers competitive base salary, equity, and benefits, with in-office days Monday, Tuesday,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of working in large codebases.
• Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, infrastructure, IDE/editor integrations, CLIs, or workflow automation.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex), or extending coding agents, MCP‑based integrations, AI‑powered code review systems, or agent skill/tool ecosystems.
• Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI‑generated outputs.
• Strong technical judgment and systems design skills, with the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-augmented workflows and systems to help coding agents understand codebases and enable faster software development tasks.
• Scale autonomous cloud agents to handle complex engineering tasks and reduce toil.
• Build IDE, editor, and CLI integrations for AI-assisted development in daily work.
• Create reusable agent skills, tools, context, and integrations for Asana teams to leverage.
• Improve AI-assisted code review workflows for faster, higher-quality feedback.
• Drive adoption of AI developer tools through usability improvements, measurement, and documentation.

Skills

Large codebases

Developer tools experience

AI-assisted development

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

MCP-based integrations

Job description

Asana seeks a Software Engineer to enhance our AI developer experience and empower engineers to move faster. You will work on the AI Developer Productivity team, delivering AI-powered tools across editors, IDEs, CLIs, code review, and local/cloud coding agents in a New York City hybrid setting.

We value hands-on work with AI-assisted development, scalable agent architectures, and reusable skills. The role offers competitive base salary, equity, and benefits, with in-office days Monday, Tuesday,