3 days ago
Base Salary
$148k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, configure, and debug custom AI agents and agentic applications in live enterprise customer tenants.
- Lead technical discovery sessions and translate customer requirements into product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
- Use and provide feedback on Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and Agent Harness to improve Workday’s developer toolkit.
- Identify recurring deployment challenges and help productize field-tested solutions into standardized capabilities, architectures, playbooks, and guidance.
- Collaborate with other Forward Deployed Engineers to deliver integrated agentic systems across first-party agents, Sana, Data Cloud, and Deployment AI.
- Guide technical agent-development workstreams from kickoff through graduation within standard six-month deployment cycles.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
- Hands-on experience building LLM or agentic systems using capabilities such as tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent orchestration.
- Hands-on coding and debugging skills in Python, Java, or similar, plus knowledge of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.
- Experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments, live-data troubleshooting, and custom workflow integration.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.
- Ability to derive generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues and communicate complex technical challenges to non-technical leadership.
- Preferred experience with Workday business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, integrations, MCP, A2A, agent development kits, orchestration frameworks, agent evaluations, observability, guardrails, developer tools, SDKs, platforms, Workday Extend, Workday Orchestrate, or Workday Integrations.
Benefits
- Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
- The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- The role is based primarily in Pleasanton, California, with additional US locations listed, and includes customer-site travel of up to 20%.
About Workday
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.