Workday
Senior AI Engineer
$176K–$312K
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- As stated in the requirements: 8+ years in software engineering plus 1+ years building production-grade LLM/agentic systems, OR 5+ years in Machine Learning Engineering or AI application development plus 2+ years shipping LLM-backed products; also 2+ years integrating large models and AI APIs, 1+ years designing and scaling AI orchestration, 4+ years optimizing application performance (including 1+ years on LLM constraints), and 4+ years deploying systems on cloud platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical field; Master’s preferred.
About the job
Designs, builds, and integrates production-grade AI agents into Workday products, coordinating models and workflows while ensuring scalability, reliability, and responsible use of sensitive data.
What you'll do
- Design and implement system architecture and agentic workflows, integrating AI capabilities into enterprise products.
- Build and scale AI orchestration, including multi-agent frameworks, routing layers, or RAG pipelines; address latency, cost, and reliability constraints.
- Implement responsible AI safeguards for privacy, predictability, explainability, security, and evaluation.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience plus 1+ years building production-grade LLM/agentic systems, or 5+ years in Machine Learning Engineering or AI application development plus 2+ years shipping LLM-backed products.
- 2+ years integrating large models and modern AI APIs into user-facing enterprise products; 1+ years designing and scaling AI orchestration architectures.
- 4+ years optimizing application performance, including 1+ years addressing modern LLM constraints; 4+ years deploying scalable systems on cloud computing platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
Pay
$208,000 USD - $312,000 USD (base salary); $176,000 USD - $312,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, Foundation Models, AWS, GCP, RAG
AI focus
Build and productize LLM-backed agents and orchestration workflows; integrate models into enterprise products and implement responsible AI governance, guardrails, and evaluation.
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