Software Engineer, New Grad (AI)

Notion•San Francisco, CA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Notion is seeking a New Grad AI Engineer to join as a strategic partner in shaping Notion's AI vision. This role involves working on cutting-edge AI-powered features, leveraging LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to enhance Notion's intelligence and capabilities. Depending on team alignment and business needs, the engineer could focus on AI product engineering (building model-powered features end-to-end), model & systems engineering (improving model integration and performance), or evaluation & quality (creating evaluation frameworks and testing to measure and improve model and product quality). The role offers the opportunity to prototype and ship AI-powered product improvements, own productionization projects, and contribute to iteration loops by building evaluation sets, running experiments, and translating learnings into product or system changes.

Requirements

Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or another related field. Must be able to start full time prior to July 27, 2026.
Previous internship experience.
Working towards a proficiency of one or more programming languages such as Typescript, React, Python, etc.
Expertise building and prototyping: Excited to build and iterate quickly, and have started exploring AI/ML through coursework, projects, internships, or hackathons.
Comfortable learning how different parts of a product fit together (UI, APIs, data).
Some familiarity with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL.
Ability to take an idea from prototype to a working feature with guidance.
Problem-solving skills: Curious and methodical, asks good questions, breaks down ambiguous problems into smaller pieces, and iterates with feedback from teammates.
Thinks about how what they build will impact users and the business.
Communication and collaboration skills: Communicates clearly in writing and in meetings, comfortable learning in public—sharing early work, asking for help, and incorporating feedback.
Enjoys partnering with engineers and cross-functional teammates (product, design, data).
Impact and user focus: Cares about building the right thing, not just building it quickly.
Prioritizes work based on user needs and outcomes, and is mindful that features at Notion can reach millions of people.

Nice To Haves

Experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, etc.
A builder who finds joy in building software solutions for yourself or others.
Cares about the interaction between technology and society, the ways in which they inform each other, and our responsibility as technologists to be conscious of that relationship.
Has heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understands why we're big fans of their work.

Responsibilities

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.