Workday

Senior AI Engineer

Workday
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2 days ago
Vancouver, Canada or Pleasanton, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$208k - $312k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver effective agentic AI experiences for Workday Financials customers.
  • Lead end-to-end system design, implementation, and product integration for intelligent agents.
  • Integrate foundation models and modern AI APIs into scalable, user-facing software.
  • Design and orchestrate complex, multi-step agentic workflows.
  • Set the strategy for evaluating agent performance, including tool use, task completion, and trajectories.
  • Implement guardrails supporting data privacy, predictability, explainability, governance, and security.
  • Address product constraints including latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Collaborate in an iterative, team-oriented engineering environment.
  • Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and raise the technical bar across the team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • 2+ years of experience integrating large models, including LLMs or foundation models, and modern AI APIs into user-facing products.
  • 1+ years of experience in agent evaluations.
  • Experience designing evaluation datasets, test suites, and automated metrics tied to product requirements, including golden sets, production traces, and synthetic data.
  • Experience evaluating multi-step agent behavior, including tool use, task completion, and trajectories.
  • Experience with production evaluation frameworks such as LangSmith or Langfuse.
  • Knowledge of software development best practices, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
  • Track record of technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
  • Understanding of governance, guardrails, and security practices for deploying agents over sensitive enterprise data.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, independent execution, ambiguity management, and commitment to inclusive teamwork.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides reasonable accommodations during the application process.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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