# Principal Software Engineer, Agentic UX

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $246,000 USD - $370,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.

**About the Team** Agent Factory is where Workday’s next chapter gets built. We’re forming small, senior, cross-functional AI teams that bring together product leaders, AI engineers, and full-stack builders to create intelligent agents used by millions of people every day.

**About the Role** As a Principal Software Engineer, Agentic UX in Agent Factory, you’ll help build the conversational AI experience and ambient capabilities that bring Workday’s agents to life. You are an AI-native builder, not a pure frontend developer. You will own features end-to-end, connecting the agentic logic directly to the user interface.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design and deliver intuitive conversational and agentic AI experiences, prioritizing seamless user interactions and thoughtful workflows.

- Shape how users experience AI reasoning by bridging the gap between powerful agent capabilities and clear, usable interfaces.

- Collaborate in an iterative, team-first environment that values strong engineering practices and continuous learning.

- Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and help raise the technical bar across the pod.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 12+ years experience in software engineering

- 7+ years experience building and shipping user-facing software products (TypeScript/React, Python/FastAPI preferred)

- 3+ years experience building conversational or agentic AI applications

- 5+ years experience leading projects or teams

**Other Qualifications:**

- Experience collaborating with product designers, or a demonstrated portfolio focusing on high-quality UX/UI design principles

- Experience building and operating SaaS products in cloud environments (AWS preferred)

- Familiarity with the tradeoffs and architecture of modern distributed systems

- Knowledge of software development best practices (DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability)

- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Familiarity with Elasticsearch

- Exposure to additional programming languages like Java (backend) and TypeScript (frontend/fullstack) is a plus

- Proven success working within fast-paced, agile environments and cross-functional teams

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners

- Comfortable working with ambiguity and translating complex problems into clear, thoughtful solutions

- Committed to fostering an inclusive, team-oriented environment and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement

**Salary Information:** The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $246,000 USD - $370,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $206,000 USD - $370,000 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- conversational AI
- agentic AI
- TypeScript
- React
- Python
- FastAPI

### Nice to have
- Java
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Elasticsearch

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