# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization at Workday sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and customer execution. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team, you'll bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy. You'll partner with enterprise customers to architect, build, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live customer environments.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build, deploy, configure, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live enterprise tenants, working against live data, business processes, and security configurations.

- Lead technical discovery sessions with key customer stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into robust product configurations, POCs, and integration specs.

- Be a hands-on, everyday user of Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and the Agent Harness. Partner with Developer, AI, and Integration Platform product teams, providing specific feedback that improves the developer toolkit for the open Workday ecosystem.

- Identify recurring deployment challenges and help transform custom fixes into standardized, automated, out-of-the-box product capabilities.

- Collaborate with FDEs across Workday's other agent areas to deliver complete agentic systems.

- Guide engagements through structured milestones, from kickoff to graduation, enabling self-sustaining customer ownership within standard 6-month deployment cycles.

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.

- Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems.

- Hands-on coding and debugging skills (for example, Python, Java, or similar).

- Proven experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments.

- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.

**Nice to Have:**

- Working knowledge of Workday, including business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, and integrations.

- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or Agent2Agent (A2A).

- Experience with one or more agent development kits or orchestration frameworks.

- Experience designing evaluations, observability, and guardrails for agents.

- Experience building developer tools, SDKs, or platforms.

- Experience with Workday Extend, Workday Orchestrate, or Workday Integrations.

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## Skills

### Required
- LLMs
- agentic systems
- Python
- Java
- REST APIs
- object-oriented design
- system architecture
- integration patterns

### Nice to have
- Workday
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Agent2Agent (A2A)
- agent development kits
- orchestration frameworks

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