Senior AI Platform Architect

Asana; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 297,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health, wellness & fitness

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction across the AI organization. You will lead cross-team architectural decisions for AI platform, agents, and Studio, aligning with product leadership.

You'll mentor engineers, drive multi-tenant SaaS reliability at scale, and represent Asana’s AI work externally, helping attract senior talent and shape the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Define the technical vision and architecture for Asana's AI Org, including AI platform, agent systems and Studio.
• Lead strategic initiatives spanning multiple teams, such as agent runtime, memory for agents, and enterprise-scale LLM inference.
• Demonstrate deep experience with distributed systems and secure, scalable AI infrastructure.

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

Skills

Technical leadership

LLM systems

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Software architecture

Mentoring

SaaS security & data governance

Executive communication

Agent frameworks

AI platform

Job description

Asana is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction across the AI organization. You will lead cross-team architectural decisions for AI platform, agents, and Studio, aligning with product leadership.

You'll mentor engineers, drive multi-tenant SaaS reliability at scale, and represent Asana’s AI work externally, helping attract senior talent and shape the product roadmap.