Software Engineer, AI Workflows

Notion; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash compensation

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Notion is looking for an AI Product Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The role involves defining and building AI-powered features for Notion's Custom Agents. You will work closely with AI, Infrastructure, and Product teams to enhance user experiences through innovative technology.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in building AI products and is proficient in technologies like React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres. Competitive salary and considerable benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings, and other ML technologies.
• Ability to communicate nuanced ideas and engage thoughtfully with others.
• Strong understanding of the implications of technology on real lives.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and experiment with new AI features.
• Productionize and scale asynchronous workflows.
• Collaborate across AI, Infrastructure, and Product teams.

Skills

Expertise building and prototyping

Problem-solving

Empathetic communication and collaboration

Impact-orientation and user focus

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Postgres

Job description

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We’re building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work feels faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, humanity, and building things that last — not just shipping the next feature, but setting a standard for how modern teams (with humans and agents working together) think and execute.

About the Role

We’re looking for an AI Product Engineer to join the team responsible for Notion’s Custom Agents — which help teams automate their recurring workflows like filing tasks, writing reports, and answering questions in a knowledge base. As an AI Product Engineer, you’ll help define and build cutting‑edge AI‑powered features into this core product experience, leveraging LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to make Notion’s Custom Agents more intelligent, capable and reliable at scale.

What You’ll Achieve

• Work with the team to prototype and experiment with new AI features


• Productionize and scale asynchronous workflows across Notion’s systems


• Collaborate across AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver high quality experiences for users


• Stay up-to-date with the latest AI technologies and trends

Skills You’ll Need to Bring

• Expertise building and prototyping: You have experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings, and other ML technologies. You understand how parts of a system fit together from UI to data model, are familiar with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and have experience building products from ground up.


• Problem‑solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think critically about the implications of what you’re building and how it will impact real people's lives. You can navigate ambiguity flawlessly, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while also balancing the business impact of what you’re building.


• Empathetic communication and collaboration: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed. You enjoy collaborating with both fellow engineers and cross‑functional partners. You are a lifelong learner and invest in both your own growth and the growth, learning, and development of your teammates.


• Impact‑orientation and user focus: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad. Work isn’t a solo endeavor for you, and you enjoy collaborating cross‑functionally to accomplish shared goals.

Nice to Haves

• 10+ years shipping production software, with a strong track record of owning features end‑to‑end


• You’re proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.


• You have experience driving teams toward shared goals and can balance business priorities with individuals’ strengths, areas of interest, and career development goals.


• You’ve heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we’re big fans of their work.


• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Benefits & Compensation

We are committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $213,000-$250,000 per year.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Notion is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we’ll make it explicit in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, move faster, and build more creatively.