AI Product Engineer

About Notion

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life's work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In‑person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in‑office workdays.

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: Experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings, and other ML technologies. Familiarity with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL and building products from the ground up.
• Problem‑solving: Holistic approach to problems, clear understanding of context, critical thinking about impact, ability to navigate ambiguity, decompose complex problems, and balance business impact.
• Empathetic communication and collaboration: Clear communication of nuanced ideas, thoughtful engagement in disagreements, collaboration with engineers and cross‑functional partners, commitment to lifelong learning and teammate development.
• Impact‑orientation and user focus: Prioritizing projects based on business impact, balancing craft, speed, and bottom line, understanding responsibility of reach, and enjoying cross‑functional collaboration to achieve shared goals.

Nice to Haves

• Proficiency with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.
• Experience driving teams toward shared goals and balancing business priorities with individual strengths, interests, and career development.
• Familiarity with computing pioneers such as Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others, and appreciation for their contributions.
• Interests outside of technology, such as art, history, or social sciences.

Compensation and Benefits

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. 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. Compensation varies based on location, role scope, complexity, and candidate experience.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. We are 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.