Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team

Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and customer execution, working across all of Workday's AI product teams.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team, you'll bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy, taking on the most complex, ambiguous customer builds where no existing playbook applies.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps to solve the most interesting problems in the enterprise, working against live data, business processes, and security configurations, frequently in situations with no established precedent.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with senior leaders at customer organizations, translating ambiguous business requirements into enterprise-grade product builds.
• Partner directly with product and engineering teams to provide critical, specific feedback that improves the developer toolkit for the entire Workday ecosystem.
• Identify best practices and patterns and lead the work of turning custom fixes into standardized, automated, out-of-the-box product capabilities, along with the reference architectures, playbooks, and evaluation approaches that accelerate adoption.
• Collaborate with FDEs across Workday's AI product areas to deliver complete agentic systems.
• Act as technical lead for your pod, shaping the product-improvement thesis at engagement kickoff and evaluating it at exit, guiding engagements through structured milestones to graduation within standard 6-month deployment cycles, and coaching other FDEs on agent engineering and customer engagement.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development, including experience leading complex, high-stakes enterprise technical engagements.
• Hands-on coding and debugging skills (for example, Python, Java, or similar), with deep knowledge of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic systems, including tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, evaluation, and building or consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and Agent2Agent (A2A) multi-agent systems.
• Experience building on the Workday platform, including tools such as Workday Extend, Workday Orchestrate, or Workday Integrations, and a working knowledge of business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, and how customers implement and govern Workday.
• Experience designing evaluations, observability, and guardrails for agents, including agent security concerns such as prompt injection, tool misuse, and least-privilege access.

Benefits

• Base salary range: €72,000 EUR - €108,000 EUR
• Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus
• Annual refresh stock grants
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements, with at least 50% of time spent in the office or in the field