Workday

AI Engineer

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6 days ago
Pleasanton, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$147k - $259k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and integrate intelligent feature layers for Workday’s AI agents.
  • Use pre-trained foundational models, LLMs, and vision APIs to build functional user-facing enterprise software.
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines and manage AI orchestration frameworks.
  • Perform continuous prompt engineering and develop agentic workflows.
  • Integrate APIs, build backend applications, and manage data pipelines.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and UX designers to deliver reliable AI features.
  • Help shape how AI agents reason, act, and scale responsibly in Workday’s platform.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing, testing, and deploying production code.
  • 1+ years of professional experience or a strong demonstrable portfolio of applied project work with LLMs, foundational models, or modern AI APIs.
  • Experience with AI orchestration concepts such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tooling, plus prompt engineering.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with API integration, backend application development, and data pipelines.
  • 2+ years of experience with core development languages such as Python and modern software engineering workflows.
  • Familiarity with vector databases, semantic search, prompt optimization, data exploration, data transformation, and varied data-source integration.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent technical field; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Interest in user experience and applying AI to practical customer problems, along with the ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field.
  • Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations.

Tech Stack

Workday

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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