AI Applications Engineer

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 is 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, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role 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. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We wor [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 Skills You’ll Need To Bring 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, [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 w