AI Engineer

Workday’s Agent Factory is building production-grade capabilities for Workday’s next generation of AI agents. As an AI Engineer, you will design and integrate intelligent feature layers that connect AI intelligence orchestration to user-facing product delivery within the Workday stack.

Role Focus

• Develop and integrate intelligent feature layers behind Workday’s next generation of AI agents.
• Own intelligence orchestration and product delivery, connecting model “intelligence” to the user experience.
• Implement how pre-trained foundational models, including LLMs and vision APIs, support functional, enterprise software features.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for grounded, reliable outputs.
• Manage orchestration frameworks and support continuous prompt engineering.

Collaboration and Execution

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and designers to translate advanced agentic workflows into responsive, reliable, and user-centric capabilities embedded directly into Workday’s platform. This work is positioned to solve real customer needs at global scale rather than remain in research or maintenance.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including developing, testing, and deploying production code.
• 1+ years of professional experience (or a strong, demonstrable portfolio of applied work) using Large Language Models (LLMs), foundational models, or modern AI APIs.
• Demonstrated experience with AI orchestration concepts such as LangChain or LlamaIndex, plus a strong foundation in prompt engineering for LLM-powered features.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with API integration, backend application development, and managing data pipelines.
• 2+ years experience with core development languages (such as Python) and modern software engineering workflows, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, and version control.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent (Master’s preferred).
• Strong interest in user experience and applying AI to practical customer problems.
• Familiarity with AI orchestration concepts, vector databases, semantic search, and prompt optimization techniques.
• Experience performing data exploration, transformation, and integrating varied data sources to ground AI outputs contextually.
• Ability to work in a team environment with software developers, product managers, and UX designers.
• Eagerness to keep pace with advances in generative AI, autonomous agents, and LLM application design.

Technologies

• Python
• LLMs
• Vision APIs
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• LangChain
• LlamaIndex
• Vector databases
• Semantic search
• CI/CD
• Testing frameworks
• Version control

About the Agent Factory Team

• Agent Factory is where Workday’s next chapter gets built.
• Small, senior, cross-functional AI teams bring together product leaders, AI engineers, and full-stack builders to create intelligent agents used by millions of people every day.
• This is production-grade AI deeply embedded into Workday’s platform, not research experiments or maintenance work.
• Teams own problems end to end, collaborate tightly across disciplines, and use the right tools to address customer challenges at global scale.
• Work sits at the intersection of AI, platform architecture, and human workflows, with autonomy to influence how agents reason, act, and scale responsibly.

Work Model

• This role supports a collaborative, cross-functional pod structure.
• Flexible work approach: spend at least 50% of your time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
• Remote “home office” roles also have the opportunity to come together in offices for important moments.

Compensation

• Salary range: USD 147,000 - 259,000 per year
• Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
• Primary Location Base Pay Range: $173,000 USD - $259,000 USD
• Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $147,000 USD - $259,000 USD
• This role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

• Workday considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law.
• Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process, including regarding use of AI tools for employment decision-making.
• Workday prohibits adverse action against candidates or employees for reporting possible policy violations, requesting accommodations, exercising privacy rights, or cooperating in investigations.
• If you require a reasonable accommodation, email [email protected] as far in advance as possible.

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