Enterprise Forward-Deployed Engineer — AI Integrations

FDE Times; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead hands-on delivery of complex customer engagements, designing and deploying production-ready solutions that integrate Notion as the operating layer for enterprise environments.

You will embed with customers to design and build scalable data pipelines, custom agents, and AI workflows, collaborating with IT, security, and business stakeholders to drive architectural decisions and deliver value at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in customer-facing or forward deployed engineering role or a similar hands-on technical role.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python and comfort with writing production-quality code in customer-facing or internal engineering contexts.
• Hands-on experience with APIs and data integration.
• Ability to lead technical discovery with customers, assess feasibility, identify risks, scope technical work, estimate effort, and translate ambiguous requirements into an executable plan.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to isolate root causes across code, APIs, permissions, integrations and customer specific configuration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences effectively.
• A track record of delivering customer value by translating technical challenges into solutions that drive outcomes for customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the hands-on technical delivery of customer engagements, including deep technical discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, and end to end implementation.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make informed architectural decisions and identify opportunities to expand and deepen their use of Notion.
• Design, build, and operate custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines that connect Notion with customers’ systems and workflows.
• Lead the design and execution of large-scale content and data migrations, including discovery, scoping, data modeling, transformation logic, validation, and post-migration optimization.
• Work directly with customer engineering, IT, security and business stakeholders to gather technical requirements, identify constraints, evaluate feasibility, and make sound architectural decisions that maximizes the value of Notion within their broader technical ecosystem.
• Troubleshoot complex implementation issues across APIs, integrations, automation logic, data quality, permissions, authentication, system limits, and customer specific environments.
• Design and operate feedback loops with Product, CX, and Engineering, translating real-world implementation challenges into actionable insights, technical requirements, and tooling improvements that directly influence Notion’s Product Roadmap and our Customers.
• Build reusable technical assets, including migration tooling, integration patterns, reference implementations, discovery frameworks, technical standards, scripts, and internal delivery tooling.
• Help define how Services delivers complex technical implementations at scale by improving methodologies, scoping artifacts, build patterns, technical documentation and engineering best practices.

Skills

5+ yrs exp

APIs & data

Programming languages

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Notion is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead hands-on delivery of complex customer engagements, designing and deploying production-ready solutions that integrate Notion as the operating layer for enterprise environments.

You will embed with customers to design and build scalable data pipelines, custom agents, and AI workflows, collaborating with IT, security, and business stakeholders to drive architectural decisions and deliver value at scale.