AI Workflow Automation Engineer

Overview

Join to apply for the AI Workflow Automation Engineer role at n8n. n8n is the open AI workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 160 working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit with our centre of gravity in Berlin.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. Your main goal will be to enable internal teams to design, build, and scale AI-powered automations with n8n that reduce manual work, surface the right data at the right time, and unlock new LLM-driven capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Requirements discovery and prioritization — Partner with Support, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and People to uncover high-impact automation opportunities; translate business goals into clear technical specs with success metrics; prioritize pragmatically by impact and effort to ship value fast.
• Build and ship AI + automation workflows — Design, implement, and maintain n8n workflows combining APIs, data stores, and LLM capabilities; use functions, expressions, and custom JavaScript where needed to keep logic clean and testable; instrument workflows for observability, error handling, retries, auditability, and versioning.
• AI enablement and safety — Apply RAG, structured output parsing, and tool-use patterns where appropriate to increase reliability; enforce data governance and privacy guardrails when handling sensitive information.
• Rollout and lifecycle ownership — Document clearly, provide handover and training, and iterate based on feedback and telemetry; maintain a backlog of improvements and deprecations to keep workflows healthy and cost-efficient.
• Internal n8n advocacy — Share patterns, templates, and best practices for “how n8n uses n8n” across teams; capture product gaps and collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap.

Qualifications

Must-haves

• 🧩 Hands-on n8n expertise: You’ve shipped production n8n workflows using APIs, webhooks, auth, conditional logic, merges, and resilient error handling.
• 🧑💻 JavaScript & expressions: You’re comfortable writing JavaScript in Function nodes and using expressions safely across branches.
• 🤖 AI foundations: You’ve used modern LLMs for automation with prompt design, few-shot examples, structured outputs, and basic evaluation.
• 📚 RAG literacy: You understand retrieval-augmented generation concepts and data source hygiene.
• 🔌 Systems & data integration: You know REST APIs, webhooks, pagination, rate limits, and auth flows (OAuth2, API keys).
• 🏢 Business systems: You’ve integrated tools like Salesforce, Paddle, Shopify, Customer.io, HiBob, Google Workspace, BigQuery, or Metabase (or similar).
• 🧠 Product mindset & comms: You scope MVPs, ship iteratively, write clear docs, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• ⏱️ Experience: You have 3+ years in automation, internal tools, BizOps/RevOps, solutions engineering, or similar builder roles.

Nice-to-haves

• 🧾 Domain automations: You’ve built HR, Support, or RevOps automations and care about data hygiene.
• 💬 AI assistants: You’ve created chat or Q&A assistants grounded in internal knowledge bases.
• 📈 SQL basics: You can write simple SQL for validation and reporting.
• 🌐 Community: You engage with the n8n or adjacent automation ecosystems.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership – Our core value is to “empower others,” and you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge.
• Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness – Europe: benefits according to local country norms; US: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Future planning – Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms; US: 401(k).
• Financial security – Europe: benefits according to local country norms; US: disability, life & AD&D, and hospital coverage.
• Career growth – €1K per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching.
• A passionate team – Regular hackathons and a remote-first culture.
• Remote-first – Remote across Europe, with regular off-sites; some roles are hybrid.
• Giving back – $100 per month to support open source projects.
• AI enablement – Unlimited AI budget to explore tools for productivity and creativity.
• Transparency – Visibility into what everyone is working on and company performance.
• An ambitious but kind culture – eNPS 94 in 2024.
• Country-specific details provided in your contract.

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple postings, it is likely remote for this role and posted in different locations to reach more candidates. Apply to the location you are likely to work from in the future.