4 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Translate complex enterprise business logic, prose, and scripts into structured AI skill definitions with domain experts and consultants.
- Use Cursor, Claude Code, and custom tooling to create and refine prompts, tool descriptions, and Model Context Protocol tool calls.
- Integrate skills with backend systems through REST APIs, MCP servers, and structured data transformations.
- Refactor procedures into modular logic and optimize prompts for token efficiency and execution reliability.
- Build automated tests for edge cases, API parameter bounds, fallback logic, error handling, and schema mismatches.
- Establish authoring standards, train domain experts, and review skill pull requests for schema compliance and API integrity.
- Create evaluation datasets, LLM-as-a-Judge scoring, trajectory analysis, and CI/CD quality gates.
- Use production agent trace logs to identify failures, update benchmarks, and improve deterministic behavior.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on API integrations, backend services, or scripting in Python or TypeScript.
- 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 translate domain-expert requirements into technical specifications.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and agentic specifications such as Model Context Protocol.
- Ability to refactor complex scripts or unstructured documentation into modular, testable, production-ready code.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests, mocking API dependencies, and debugging schema mismatches.
Benefits
- Flexible work model combining remote and in-person 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 reasonable accommodations and is an equal opportunity employer.
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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.