Workday

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Developer Platform

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3 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Pleasanton, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build, configure, test, and debug custom AI agents and agentic applications in live enterprise tenants.
  • Participate in technical discovery with customers and translate business requirements into configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
  • Use Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and the Agent Harness while documenting bugs, edge cases, and developer-tool friction for product and engineering teams.
  • Contribute fixes, reusable components, sample code, documentation, reference architectures, playbooks, and deployment patterns based on field insights.
  • Collaborate with FDEs and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated agentic systems across Workday’s agent products and platforms.
  • Own defined technical workstreams and help guide customer engagements through kickoff-to-graduation milestones within standard six-month deployment cycles.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems, including areas such as tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent orchestration.
  • Hands-on coding and debugging skills, such as Python or Java, plus working knowledge of REST APIs, object-oriented design, and integration patterns.
  • Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders on technical deployments, troubleshooting, or integrations.
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.
  • Strong technical communication, collaboration, adaptability, and product-oriented problem-solving skills.
  • Preferred: knowledge of Workday business processes, security, permissions, tenant configuration, or integrations.
  • Preferred: experience with MCP or A2A, agent development kits or orchestration frameworks, evaluation and testing of LLM-powered systems, Workday Extend, Workday Orchestrate, or Workday Integrations.
  • Preferred: open-source contributions, side projects, or hackathon work involving AI agents or developer tooling.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least half of each quarter to be spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Standard customer deployments follow six-month cycles, and the role includes travel of up to 20% to customer sites.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
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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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