AI Applications Engineer

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.

We’re looking for an AI Applications Engineer to help drive Notion’s business transformation efforts. In this role you’ll be a strategic partner to our internal stakeholders (primarily GTM Finance and People teams) and deliver and scale creative AI-driven solutions to multi-faceted problems with measurable business impact. You’ll also build reusable components evaluation patterns and operational guardrails that make AI delivery repeatable across teams.

• Work with stakeholders to discover opportunities from ambiguous problem statements translate them into scoped solutions and drive iterative releases from idea to adoption

• Build and ship end‑to‑end AI solutions—from problem framing through data readiness modeling evaluation and production rollout

• Establish evaluation and production-readiness patterns (metrics monitoring human-in-the-loop rollout plans) so solutions are reliable at scale

• Create reusable components tooling templates and playbooks that accelerate future projects and enable other teams to ship safely

• 4-8 years of experience as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer (or equivalent) with a track record of building and operating production systems end-to-end across application code data and infrastructure. Domain experience partnering with GTM and Finance is a plus.

• Experience building AI-enabled applications in production (LLMs and/or classical ML) including prompt + tool orchestration retrieval evaluation and iteration based on real-world feedback.

• Strong production-readiness instincts including observability monitoring quality gates incident response and safe rollouts/rollbacks in live business workflows.

• Systems and integration fluency across APIs data pipelines and enterprise tools (e.g. CRM finance ticketing HRIS) with the ability to navigate messy systems and still deliver reliable outcomes.

• Impact-driven approach to technology: You use technology to drive measurable user and business outcomes not as an end in itself. You stay current with tools like Cursor Claude Code and other AI-assisted development environments and you’re pragmatic about choosing what delivers the most value.

• Thoughtful problem-solving: You start with a clear understanding of context align technical and non-technical partners and translate AI concepts into actionable business outcomes. You navigate ambiguity and decompose complex problems into clean solutions.

• Empathetic communication and collaboration: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly and enjoy collaborating across engineering data and business teams.

• Familiarity with security privacy and governance for AI (access controls PII handling vendor/tool risk auditability).

Notion is 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 the estimated base salary range for this role is $152000 - $250000 per year.

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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.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our teams to reflect the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed we still encourage you to apply.

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.

What We Do

Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion they're all in one place and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you your team and your whole company. Mission: We humans are toolmakers by nature but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Here at Notion we're on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

Why Work With Us

Here at Notion our work shapes our culture and our culture inspires our work. We seek to hire creative toolmakers that want to be the best in their craft. If every employee is able to focus on being the best toolmaker in their craft we'll be able to achieve our mission of enabling the world to better solve its problems.

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