Software Engineer, AI Workflows

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Software Engineer, AI Workflows at Notion, focusing on building and scaling Custom Agents that automate team workflows. The role involves prototyping, productionizing asynchronous workflows, and collaborating across AI, Infrastructure, and Product teams to enhance Notion's AI capabilities using LLMs and embeddings.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with the team to prototype and experiment with new AI features
  2. Productionize and scale asynchronous workflows across Notion’s systems
  3. Collaborate across AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver high quality experiences for users
  4. Stay up-to-date with the latest AI technologies and trends

Skills

Required

  • building AI products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies
  • understand how parts of a system fit together from UI to data model
  • familiar with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL
  • experience building products from ground up
  • approach problems holistically
  • think critically about the implications of what you're building
  • navigate ambiguity flawlessly
  • decompose complex problems into clean solutions
  • balancing the business impact of what you’re building
  • communicate nuanced ideas clearly
  • explain technical decisions in writing
  • brainstorming in real time
  • engage thoughtfully with other perspectives
  • compromise when needed
  • collaborating with both fellow engineers and cross-functional partners
  • lifelong learner
  • invest in both your own growth and the growth, learning, and development of your teammates
  • care about business impact
  • prioritize projects accordingly
  • understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
  • understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad
  • enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals

Nice to have

  • proficient with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres
  • experience driving teams toward shared goals
  • balance business priorities with individuals’ strengths, areas of interest, and career development goals
  • heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work
  • interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences

What the JD emphasized

  • Expertise building and prototyping: You have experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies.

Other signals

  • building AI-powered features
  • leveraging LLMs, embeddings
  • make Notion's Custom Agents more intelligent, capable and reliable at scale
  • Productionize and scale asynchronous workflows
  • Expertise building and prototyping: You have experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies.