Workday
Enterprise · HR & finance software
Enterprise · HR & finance software
Workday currently has 33 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Director of Machine Learning Engineering - Agent Factory, LLM Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer - Evisort, Manager, Software Development Engineering, Manager, Software Development Engineering - AI Platform. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Workday's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (67%), application (24%), serving infrastructure (6%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Workday is hiring AI talent in: United States (13 roles), Canada (13 roles), Israel (5 roles), Ireland (2 roles).
Job postings at Workday most frequently reference: agent orchestration, llm observability, rag, model serving, tool use.
In the past 30 days, Workday has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a -41% change versus the prior 30 days (41 → 24).
Workday has 43 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which comprise 67% of their openings. Engineering is the primary function for these hires, with the United States and Canada being the top hiring countries. The company is actively seeking talent in areas such as agent orchestration, model serving, and RAG. In the last 30 days, Workday has seen a substantial increase in AI hiring, with 44 new roles posted, representing a 144% rise compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 46% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $108k–$342k (avg $219k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer III / Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AI Platform Workday is seeking Machine Learning Engineers to build the next generation of AI-first products, focusing on Agentic AI, Information Retrieval, and Evaluation. The role involves architecting reasoning and planning agents, optimizing LLM configurations, advancing semantic search and Text-to-SQL capabilities, and engineering cloud-based pipelines for evaluation and monitoring. This position bridges research and production, deploying cutting-edge agents into the Workday ecosystem to deliver transformative value to millions of users. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Director of Machine Learning Engineering - Agent Factory Workday is seeking a Director of AI Agent Engineering to lead the development of AI agents for HR and Finance business functions. The role involves building and mentoring a team, driving technical excellence, and ensuring the delivery of scalable and secure AI agent solutions that integrate with the Workday platform. Key responsibilities include evaluating and integrating AI technologies like LLMs, RAG, and orchestration frameworks, and ensuring adherence to data privacy, security, and compliance standards. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Gen AI) Workday is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Gen AI) to join their Adaptive Planning organization. The role focuses on designing and building agentic workflows that integrate AI into financial planning systems for large enterprises. Responsibilities include technical leadership in AI agent development, embedding agentic capabilities, collaborating cross-functionally, owning the AI development lifecycle, and leveraging enterprise data for model optimization. The position requires strong Python and Java skills, experience with LLMs, RAG, and cloud platforms. | Agent | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Gen AI) Workday is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join their Adaptive Planning organization. The role focuses on designing and building agentic workflows and AI-first intelligent systems for financial planning. Responsibilities include technical leadership, integrating AI frameworks, collaborating cross-functionally, owning the AI development lifecycle, leveraging enterprise data, and providing mentorship. The position requires extensive experience in Python, ML/DL frameworks, and generative models, with a focus on production-grade AI solutions for enterprise challenges. | Agent | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design and build core ML systems for Workday's next-generation AI agents. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of LLM-powered agents, including RAG pipelines, orchestration, evaluation, and feedback loops, ensuring scalability, observability, and enterprise readiness. It sits at the intersection of ML and platform engineering, requiring strong engineering judgment to build reliable and explainable systems at global scale. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Agent Development Engineer - Agent Platform Workday is seeking a Principal Agent Development Engineer to join their Agent Platform team, focusing on engineering the intelligent data backbone and trust systems for AI agents. This role involves implementing guardrails, security features, and adversarial testing to ensure the safety and reliability of AI agents within the Workday ecosystem, impacting millions of global users. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer III Machine Learning Engineer III at Workday to work on the Agent Evaluation Platform and Information Retrieval products. The role involves architecting agentic AI, driving meta-ML and optimization, advancing information retrieval with semantic search and text-to-SQL/Python, scaling evaluation and observability pipelines, and owning the ML lifecycle. Focus on applied research and production deployment of AI agents and search systems. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer Workday is seeking a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join their Agent Factory team. This role focuses on designing and building the core ML systems for next-generation AI agents, involving LLM-powered agents, RAG pipelines, and workflow orchestration. The position requires end-to-end ownership of production ML systems, from problem framing to deployment and monitoring, with a strong emphasis on scalability, observability, and enterprise readiness. The role involves close collaboration with software engineers and product managers to integrate agents into Workday's platform. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Evisort AI Workday is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join the Evisort AI team, focusing on Document Intelligence and Contract Intelligence. The role involves developing tailored user experiences using LLMs and Knowledge Graphs, delivering ML solutions across Workday's product ecosystem, and deploying new AI products at scale. This position requires extensive experience in ML frameworks, production ML systems, LLMs, and cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on product development and team leadership. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer Workday is seeking a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design and build core ML systems for AI agents. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of LLM-powered agents, including RAG pipelines, orchestration, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, with a focus on production-grade, scalable, and enterprise-ready solutions embedded within Workday's platform. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Development Engineer - ML Ops Software Development Engineer focused on ML Ops for Workday's Payroll ML team. The role involves developing frameworks, automation, and tooling to support scalable ML Runtime Inference applications using technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, and Python. Responsibilities include implementing and operating distributed systems, deploying containers, managing cloud infrastructure, and driving adoption of new ML tools with reliability and scale in mind. The role requires experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and collaboration with Data Scientists and ML Engineers. | Serve | 7 |
| Data Scientist - AI Platform Data Scientist on the Platform Consumption Console (PCC) team, responsible for building critical infrastructure for a consumption-based pricing model. The role involves leading data science efforts to understand business requirements, design, build, and implement ML solutions for statistical modeling, value measurement, and product decisions. Key responsibilities include ML modeling, data exploration, preparation, collection, integration, and operationalization, with a focus on enterprise-scale data and financial ledgers. | Data | 7 |
| Sr Associate Software Development Engineer Workday is seeking a Sr Associate Software Development Engineer to join the Agent Factory team, which builds AI agents for HR & Finance. This role involves implementing tooling strategies, integrating AI-driven solutions into the Workday platform, and contributing to the end-to-end development and operation of AI-powered agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Advisor, Deployment Innovation The role focuses on building an 'AI Deployment Engine' for Workday, using AI-powered automations and orchestrations to replace manual implementation work. The core task involves designing and refining an AI agent that can plan work, utilize tools and APIs, and learn from execution data, leveraging technologies like RAG and LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Partner Architect This role focuses on architecting and building agentic AI solutions for enterprise customers, bridging the gap between Workday's platform and Global System Integrators. The Forward Deployed Partner Architect will lead the creation of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and "Agent Test Drives" to showcase Workday's AI capabilities, focusing on LLM orchestration, data models, security, and governance within a customer's IT ecosystem. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Enterprise Architect Drives AI consumption and revenue by creating strategic, customer-specific roadmaps and optimizing platform entitlements. Accelerates sales cycles by building bespoke agentic Proof of Concepts (POCs) and leading hands-on Agent Test Drives for clients. Collaborates with Solution Architects and acts as a feedback loop to Product & Technology. | Agent | 7 |
| Agent Development Engineer - Agent Platform Workday is seeking an Agent Development Engineer to join their Agent Platform team, focusing on building and scaling the next generation of their agentic system. This role will engineer the intelligent data backbone and verified trust systems that power Workday's AI and Agents, with responsibilities including Agent Safety Scanning, Attestation, Observability, and enhancing the Customer Experience for Agent Management. The engineer will implement guardrails and security features, develop adversarial agents, and work with cross-functional teams to secure AI agents across the Workday ecosystem. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Full Stack Engineer - Agent Platform This Principal Full Stack Engineer role on the Agent Platform team at Workday focuses on building and scaling the next generation of AI agents. The role involves developing user-facing and platform experiences to enhance trust in AI agents, including agent safety scanning, attestation, and observability. It requires designing and shipping full-stack solutions, integrating AI capabilities into HR and Finance workflows, and owning features end-to-end in a cloud environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Development Engineer - AI Platform (US Federal) Software Development Engineer to build and maintain the Agent Platform, focusing on infrastructure for developing, deploying, and operating AI agents in production. Responsibilities include designing backend services, systems, and tooling for the AI application SDLC, covering distributed systems, orchestration, developer experience, and enabling teams to reliably build, test, and scale AI-powered workflows. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Technical Delivery Consultant - AI Practice This role is for a Principal Technical Delivery Consultant focused on AI solutions within Workday's Professional Services. The consultant will be responsible for designing and overseeing the technical realization of AI solutions for customers, including Native AI Agents, the Workday Agent Platform, and external LLMs. Key responsibilities include solution architecture, strategic advisory to C-suite, technical leadership in delivery, and providing feedback to Product and Engineering teams. The role requires strong experience in enterprise software implementation, technical architecture, and hands-on experience with AI/ML deployments like LLM-based solutions and RAG architectures. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal/ Senior Software Development Engineer (Full Stack) Workday is seeking a Principal/Senior Software Development Engineer to join their Agent Factory team. This role involves building production-grade AI agents deeply embedded into Workday's platform for HR and Finance workflows. The engineer will design and ship full-stack solutions, integrating LLMs with backend systems, and owning services from development to production. The position emphasizes working at the intersection of AI, platform architecture, and human workflows, with a focus on scaling intelligent agents responsibly. | Agent | 7 |