AI Workflow Automation Engineer (Berlin, Germany)

AI Workflow Automation Engineer

Company Overview

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 160 - 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 buildersEarned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projectsBeen ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuationAnd are grateful for our 94 eNPS score (most companies would call 70 excellent) 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.We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

Job Summary

🎯 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.

Key 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.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Location

Berlin, Berlin, Germany (On-site)

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—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: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*US: Comprehensive medical (PPO 1200), dental, and vision plans. Future planning 💰 – Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*US: 401(k) retirement plan. Financial security 🛡️ – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*US: Short-term & long-term disability insurance, life & AD&D coverage, and additional hospital coverage. Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94! Country-specific details are provided in your contract.

Equal Opportunity Statement

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.