Senior/Staff Engineer, n8n Labs

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open 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 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
• Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
• Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register http://app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

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.

We believe AI is fundamentally reshaping how software is built, how work gets done, and how companies operate. n8n sits at the center of that transformation.

ABOUT N8N LABS

AI is evolving at extreme speed. Interfaces, orchestration, agents, workflows, and autonomy are being reinvented every 6–12 months.

n8n Labs exists to ensure n8n wins in that future.

This is a small, highly autonomous skunkworks team focused on exploring and building entirely new AI-native products from scratch. The mission is not incremental innovation. It’s strategic future-building.

n8n Labs is:

• Focused on 01 product creation
• Optimized for speed, signal, and experimentation
• Designed to explore bold ideas quickly
• Allowed to challenge assumptions and existing workflows
• Closely connected to n8n’s founder and leadership team
• Free to pursue strong signals, even when they temporarily sit outside the current product direction

This is not:

• A feature factory for the core product
• An internal R&D playground
• A long research effort without shipping
• A traditional product or engineering team

We’re forming a small founding team of builders who operate more like founders than traditional employees.

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.

In this role, you will:

• 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
• Pull in tooling, contractors, collaborators, or external support when needed to move quickly and unblock progress
• 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
• Share insights and discoveries with the wider organization to help n8n stay ahead of the AI landscape

REQUIREMENTS

MUST-HAVES

• 01 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, and can translate emerging shifts into concrete product opportunities.
• 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.
• Product vision: You’re known for spotting non-obvious opportunities and thinking ahead of where the market is going.
• Speed & resourcefulness: You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and know how to creatively unblock yourself to make …