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Senior AI Engineer

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$208,000 USD - $312,000 USD per year

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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 looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Agent Factory team.

About the Role As a Senior AI Engineer in Agent Factory, you will drive the end-to-end system design, implementation, and product integration for a core domain of Workday’s next generation of intelligent agents. You will develop and integrate foundational models safely and reliably into functional, production-grade software.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and integrate foundational models into functional software
  • Design, experiment, and orchestrate complex agentic workflows
  • Implement strict guardrails for data privacy, predictability, and explainability
  • Balance domain-level system architecture and rigorous execution

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 1+ years of dedicated focus building production-grade LLM/agentic systems
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating large models and modern AI APIs
  • 1+ years of experience designing and scaling AI orchestration architectures
  • 4+ years of experience optimizing application performance
  • 4+ years of proven experience leveraging cloud computing platforms

Benefits

  • Annualized base salary range: $208,000 USD - $312,000 USD
  • Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus
  • Annual refresh stock grants
  • Comprehensive benefits

Flexible Work

  • Combine in-person time and remote work
  • Spend at least half (50%) of time each quarter in the office or in the field

Skills

Nice to have

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