Jobs / United States / Asana INC
Staff Software Engineer, AI Teammates
Asana INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 43 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 32 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Asana INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles21 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $171k–$220k, median $195k. Most were filed at wage level II (48%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 43 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 32 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
AI Teammates are Asana’s flagship AI innovation - 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. We build the core systems behind agentic execution: model evaluation and rollouts, proactive detection of blocked work, execution quality infrastructure, tool orchestration, and the platform APIs that power AI across all of Asana engineering. Rather than building a monolithic feature, we build a composable foundation. If a Teammate reasons, acts, or autonomously improves - that’s us. We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Teammates Platform. You will bridge the gap between frontier AI capability and enterprise-grade software engineering, operating in close partnership with frontier model providers while building systems that scale to millions of users. If you are passionate about applied AI, agentic orchestration, high-reliability backend systems, and growing high-performing engineering teams, we’d love to hear from you! This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What You’ll Achieve • Set the technical strategy for the AI Teammates execution engine, tool orchestration, and platform APIs within Asana, advocating for engineering-driven investments with a vision for keeping our systems flexible, reliable, and maintainable to meet customer needs now and in the future • Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, setting high standards for clean architecture, systems reliability, and evaluation methodologies while enabling the engineers around you to deliver at high velocity and grow their skills • Be a key collaborator with other groups across Engineering and a technical counterpart to the AI Teammates team’s Engineering Manager, serving as a partner to external model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) and representing our platform capabilities across team boundaries • Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand agentic work patterns, and propose elegant solutions to make AI Teammates effective and trustworthy • Architect and own the composable platform foundation, partnering with product engineering teams to enable them to build agentic capabilities into their domains in a self-serve manner • Oversee the execution of high-impact technical initiatives—from advanced proactivity and MCP integrations to model evals, latency tuning, and cost optimization—ensuring our systems scale safely with frontier LLM updates About You • 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, enabling you to jump in and rapidly unblock teammates facing thorny obstacles • Deep project management experience includi