# Applied AI Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Dublin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €96,000 EUR - €144,000 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/Ireland-Dublin/Senior-Applied-AI-Engineer_JR-0111324?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to serve as a high-impact bridge between human domain expertise and production AI execution.

In this role, you will own the end-to-end authoring, prompt architecture, and API integration of AI skills that power Workday's core agentic capabilities.

This is a pivotal, high-visibility engineering position with cross-organizational impact. You will work directly with top Subject Matter Experts across business units to translate complex enterprise logic, tribal configuration knowledge, and standard operating procedures into deterministic, schema-compliant AI tools using state-of-the-art AI-assisted development environments.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Enterprise Skill Authoring & Domain Codification: Partner directly with domain experts and senior consultants across business units to translate complex business logic, prose, and raw scripts into optimal, structured AI skill definitions.

- AI-Assisted Editor Mastery: Operate at the cutting edge of AI-driven software development (using Cursor, Claude Code, and custom tooling) to rapidly generate, refactor, and refine prompt logic, tool descriptions, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calls.

- API & Capability Orchestration: Connect skills to backend systems by wiring up enterprise REST APIs, MCP servers, and complex data structures for seamless agent execution.

- Logic Optimization & Deduplication: Abstract messy business procedures into clean, modular logic,separating prose from executable code while optimizing prompt structures for minimal token consumption and maximum execution reliability.

- Edge-Case Stress Testing: Design and implement automated test suites to stress-test skill edge cases, API parameter bounds, fallback logic, and error-handling routines before deployment.

- Enablement & Code Review: Scale authoring standards across Workday by establishing best practices, training domain experts on self-serve authoring workflows, and reviewing submitted skill pull requests for schema compliance and API integrity.

- Enforce Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD): Partner with Domain Experts to curate benchmark eval datasets, implementing LLM-as-a-Judge scoring, trajectory trace analysis, and CI/CD quality gates to validate skill accuracy and prevent regressions prior to production promotion.

- Production Telemetry & Drift Analysis: Establish feedback loops using production agent trace logs to identify trajectory failures, update eval benchmark suites, and continuously improve skill deterministic behavior.

**About You**

- Basic Qualifications:

+ 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in Python or TypeScript with a focus on API integrations, backend services, or scripting.   + 1+ years of hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to author, refactor, and debug production code.   + Strong experience working 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.

**Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)**

- Primary Location Base Pay Range: €96,000 EUR - €144,000 EUR Ireland

**Our Approach to Flexible Work**

- With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TypeScript
- REST APIs
- JSON/YAML schemas
- structured data transformations
- AI-assisted development tools

### Nice to have
- Cursor
- Claude Code
- GitHub Copilot

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