Senior/Staff Engineer, Labs

About the role

You'll work as part of a small, high-caliber team operating with high autonomy, fast iteration cycles, and strong founder energy. Your main goal will be to meaningfully increase the probability that n8n wins in the AI-native future by rapidly identifying, validating, and building the next generation of AI-native products and experiences.

What you'll do

• Continuously explore emerging shifts in AI interfaces, orchestration, agents, autonomy, and AI-powered work through hands-on experimentation and ecosystem research
• Stay deeply connected to the AI ecosystem through founder networks, user conversations, Product Hunt, Reddit, GitHub, X, events, and emerging tooling
• Identify unmet needs and future product opportunities that could shape n8n's long-term direction
• Rapidly prototype, validate, and launch AI-native product ideas with minimal support
• Operate across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market with a highly scrappy, execution-first mindset
• Use structured thinking, experimentation, user feedback, and market signals to evaluate what n8n should invest in over the next 1–3 years
• Work closely with n8n's founder and Product leadership to workshop ideas, pressure-test assumptions, and shape strategic product bets

What you'll need

• 0→1 product building experience: You've built and launched products from scratch, ideally in the AI space, and know how to move from idea to real-world validation quickly
• AI-native thinking: You have strong intuition for how AI is changing software, workflows, interfaces, and user behavior
• Hands-on execution: You're comfortable building, prototyping, experimenting, and operating with minimal structure or support
• Product intuition & problem-solving: You combine strong product instincts with structured thinking and can quickly validate whether an idea is worth pursuing
• Speed & resourcefulness: You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and know how to creatively unblock yourself
• Collaboration & communication: You can workshop ideas with senior leaders, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and bring others along through clear reasoning

Nice to have

• Deep AI ecosystem immersion: You actively follow emerging products, models, startups, communities, and technical trends across the AI landscape
• Founder experience: You've previously founded or been an early employee at a startup
• Technical breadth: You're comfortable using AI coding tools, low-code/no-code tooling, or building lightweight prototypes independently

What they offer

• Work on 0→1 product creation with direct exposure to company leadership
• Freedom to explore bold ideas and challenge assumptions
• Remote-first culture that values speed, experimentation, and builder energy
• Visa sponsorship to Germany available