Software Engineer, Early Career (AI)

Notion (referenced as Sail Lore) is hiring an Early Career AI Engineer to build AI-powered features using LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies. The role involves working on AI product engineering, model & systems engineering, or evaluation & quality. The company offers a collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work together.

• Partner with your team to prototype and ship an AI-powered product improvement
• Own a scoped productionization project: integrate a new model/technique into an existing workflow, add monitoring + guardrails, or improve latency/cost/reliability
• Contribute to evals and iteration loops: build or extend an evaluation set, run experiments, analyze results, and translate learnings into product or system changes

• Less than two years of engineering experience
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Customer-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems
• Expertise building and prototyping with AI/ML through coursework, projects, internships, or hackathons
• Comfortable learning how different parts of a product fit together (UI, APIs, data)
• Familiarity with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Proactive communication and high agency
• Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch (nice to have)
• Interest in interaction between technology and society (nice to have)

• Highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits