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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$148,000 - $222,000 USD per year

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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 Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team, you'll combine hands-on agent engineering with direct customer work. You'll work with the full Workday Developer Platform stack, building production agents with Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and the Agent Harness.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, configure, test, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live enterprise tenants
  • Participate in technical discovery sessions with customer stakeholders and help translate business requirements into product configurations
  • Be a hands-on user of Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, and the Agent Harness, documenting bugs and friction points
  • Spot recurring deployment challenges and contribute fixes, reusable components, and documentation
  • Work with FDEs across Workday's other agent areas to deliver complete agentic systems
  • Own defined technical workstreams within customer engagements and help guide them through structured milestones

Requirements:

  • 5+ 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
  • Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders on technical deployments
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed

Benefits:

  • Annualized base salary ranges: $148,000 - $222,000 USD (primary location) and $123,900 - $222,000 USD (additional US locations)
  • Eligibility for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus
  • Annual refresh stock grants
  • Comprehensive benefits package

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Agent2Agent (A2A)
  • agent development kits
  • orchestration frameworks
  • Workday Extend
  • Workday Orchestrate
  • Workday Integrations

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