Sr AI Engineer | Remote - Europe | TS/Vue/NodeJS

About the role

You'll drive the development of AI-powered features that redefine how users build workflow automations on n8n's platform. Working across the full AI feature lifecycle, you'll build intelligent capabilities like natural language input, smart suggestions, and workflow optimization to make automation creation faster and more intuitive.

What you'll do

• Architect and implement AI-powered capabilities including code generation, intelligent node creation, and workflow optimization
• Integrate LLM APIs and embedding models for text-to-workflow and natural language code suggestions
• Design and iterate on prompts to improve model output and user experience
• Build internal tooling, evaluation benchmarks, and automated testing for AI components
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure AI features are reliable, performant, and scalable
• Balance experimentation with impact by shipping quickly while focusing on user value
• Stay current with advances in LLMs, prompt frameworks, and developer tools

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience building web-based products, ideally in B2B SaaS startups
• Strong fullstack development skills with TypeScript, Node.js, and API design
• Experience shipping AI-powered features in production with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
• Understanding of AI fundamentals: agent architectures, chat completion roles, embedding vectors, vector databases, and chunking strategies
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, embedding models, and vector stores
• User-focused mindset with care for delivering features that solve real problems
• Bias for shipping and learning with fast iteration abilities

Nice to have

• Experience fine-tuning LLMs or working with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
• Frontend experience using Vue or React
• Technical writing or documentation contributions, especially around developer tools or AI
• Experience with agent orchestration patterns and state management in multi-step AI systems
• Knowledge of code quality evaluation metrics and context optimization techniques

What they offer

• Competitive compensation and equity ownership
• 30 days vacation (Europe) or 20 days + 8 sick days (US), plus public holidays
• Health and wellness benefits according to local norms
• €1K annual budget for courses, books, events, or coaching
• $100 monthly budget to support open source projects
• Unlimited AI budget for productivity tools and creativity