Workday

Applied AI Engineer

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4 days ago
Dublin, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Translate enterprise business logic, prose, scripts, and domain expertise into structured AI skill definitions.
  • Use Cursor, Claude Code, and custom tooling to author and refine prompts, tool descriptions, and MCP calls.
  • Integrate AI skills with backend systems through REST APIs, MCP servers, and structured data transformations.
  • Refactor complex procedures into modular logic and optimize prompts for reliable, token-efficient execution.
  • Build automated tests for edge cases, API bounds, fallback logic, schema mismatches, and error handling.
  • Establish authoring standards, train domain experts, and review skill pull requests for schema and API integrity.
  • Create evaluation datasets, LLM-as-a-Judge scoring, trajectory analysis, and CI/CD quality gates.
  • Use production trace logs to identify failures, analyze drift, update benchmarks, and improve deterministic behavior.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience in Python or TypeScript, focused on API integrations, backend services, or scripting.
  • At least 1 year of hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code for production code.
  • Strong experience with REST APIs, JSON/YAML schemas, and structured data transformations.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong technical communication skills and the ability to collaborate with non-technical domain experts.
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and agentic specifications such as MCP.
  • Ability to refactor complex scripts or documentation into modular, testable, production-ready code.
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests, mocking API dependencies, and debugging schema mismatches.
  • Experience building or operating LLM evaluation frameworks such as Ragas, DeepEval, Braintrust, LangSmith, or custom assertion suites.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement requiring at least half of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office flexibility.
  • EU base salary range of €72,000 to €108,000 for Ireland locations.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.
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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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