2 days ago
Base Salary
$190k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI platform infrastructure including LLM gateways, MCP registries, abstraction APIs, and shared services.
- Architect and implement AI agents and automation for developer workflows such as code review, documentation, and testing.
- Evaluate and integrate AI model providers while managing cost, safety, and performance tradeoffs.
- Track emerging AI models, tools, and frameworks and recommend adoption decisions to engineering leadership.
- Lead technical design for complex projects with Security, Developer Experience, and infrastructure teams.
- Build observability and governance tooling and operationalize AI policy and compliance requirements.
- Support engineers through office hours, Slack support, and the Champions program.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years building and operating production backend services or platform infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building or integrating with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, evaluation pipelines, and model selection tradeoffs.
- Understanding of AI security and responsible AI practices, including prompt injection, model misuse, data leakage, output validation, and policy guardrails.
- Experience designing and shipping reliable AI agents using agentic frameworks and patterns such as ReAct.
- Experience building MCP servers, Claude skills, or similar tool-use integrations.
- Experience with REST APIs, service-oriented architectures, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud deployments.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools and infrastructure-as-code is a plus.
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, SSO, and secrets management, plus exposure to logging, metrics, and tracing tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to align engineering, security, and product stakeholders.
Benefits
- Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office flexibility.
- May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Benefits information is provided for eligible employees in Canada and the United States.
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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.