Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 11% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $108k–$342k (avg $219k).
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.
Workday currently has 54 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Development Engineer (2), Software Development Engineer (2), Software Development Engineer (Full Stack) (2), Enterprise Solutions Architect, Engineering Platform Services, LLM Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Workday's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (78%), application (15%), 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 (25 roles), Canada (18 roles), Israel (5 roles), Ireland (5 roles).
Job postings at Workday most frequently reference: agent orchestration, llm observability, model serving, rag, tool use.
In the past 30 days, Workday has posted 38 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Sr Machine Learning / AI Engineer / MLOps Engineer This role focuses on operating, hardening, and improving the production infrastructure for an AI platform managing people, money, and agents. The MLOps Engineer will work closely with ML engineers and platform teams to ensure autonomous agents run reliably, manage deployments, monitoring, and on-call workflows for LLM-driven applications, and build tooling for agent trajectory and evaluation data. Experience with regulated enterprise environments is a hard requirement. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Software Engineer, AI Workday is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, AI to join the Deployment Adoption Platform team. This role will focus on building an AI platform to reduce the cost of implementing Workday globally, utilizing Large Language Models and agentic design patterns. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, Python, LangGraph, LangChain, and feature engineering, with a strong understanding of Data Science principles and experience with LLM-based applications and agentic systems. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Senior Developer, Agentic AI Engineering Senior Developer for the Customer Agentic Solutions team, focusing on building and operating AI-powered translation self-help services and solutions to globalize Workday AI Agents. The role involves end-to-end ownership of AI features, including problem framing, model selection, prompt engineering, evaluations, safety, cost/latency optimization, and lifecycle governance, with an emphasis on production reliability and business outcomes. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Agentic AI & API Platform Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining APIs and backend services that support agentic AI use cases within Workday's enterprise platform. The role involves designing scalable, resilient distributed systems and optimizing APIs for consumption by both human developers and AI agents, ensuring they are deterministic, self-describing, and resilient for complex workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI & API Platform This role focuses on evolving the API surface and supporting mission-critical product flows for agentic AI use cases. The team is building and scaling APIs optimized for AI agents to understand and act on autonomously, ensuring these APIs are deterministic, self-describing, and resilient. The engineer will lead the design and development of high-throughput, low-latency APIs and frameworks, drive performance and observability improvements, and provide technical leadership. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Technical Implementation Manager Workday is seeking a Technical Implementation Manager for its HiredScore team, which provides AI-powered Talent Orchestration technology. The role involves managing customer implementations, acting as a solution consultant, and ensuring project scope, quality, and timelines are met. Responsibilities include creating project plans, tracking progress, resolving issues, configuring the product, and collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in technical/project implementation management, SaaS implementation, and working with enterprise products, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Engineer, Cybersecurity Senior Data Engineer focused on data logistics, transformation, enrichment, MDM, data quality, cataloging, and governance within a cybersecurity context. The role involves designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data enrichment layers, ensuring data usability and integrity for enterprise-wide use. Responsibilities include data documentation, cataloging, MDM, designing downstream data marts, and enforcing data governance policies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Site Reliability Software Engineer focused on building reliable, scalable systems, software, and processes for the Workday Data Platform. The role involves designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, automating processes, and building infrastructure and tooling in the cloud using technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Prometheus, and Grafana. The primary focus is on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and ensuring efficient delivery and operation of software for other engineers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Workday is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Delivery Engineering team, focusing on building and managing the next-generation Data Platform and Data Lake. This role involves designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, automating deployments, and ensuring reliability for internal engineering teams. The engineer will work with technologies like Spark, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD tools to deliver immutable services and functions. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer - Product Development Tools Software Development Engineer role focused on building internal developer tools for a large enterprise AI platform. The role involves improving the productivity of engineering teams by developing and maintaining scalable development, testing, and continuous delivery tools. It emphasizes problem-solving, API development, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines within an agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer - Product Development Tools This role is for a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on building product development tools for Workday's engineering teams. The goal is to enhance productivity, improve the development lifecycle, and ensure the rapid development, testing, and shipping of high-quality products. While Workday is an AI platform, this specific role is about building the tools that enable engineers to create those products, not directly building AI models or agents. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Workday is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their data analytics infrastructure team. This role involves building and operating distributed systems for large-scale data processing on public and private clouds, focusing on performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Responsibilities include designing and debugging distributed software, developing tools for resource management, and working with technologies like Apache Spark, Kubernetes, and YARN. The role requires strong foundational knowledge of distributed computing principles and experience with large-scale distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Engineer This role is for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Workday, focusing on designing and implementing network security controls across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, private cloud). The role involves automating security posture enforcement, mentoring team members, consulting on security requirements, and providing operational support for critical security infrastructure. The team is exploring the use of AI and agents to enhance solution delivery. | — | 0 |
| Software Developer - Authentication Team Software Developer for Workday's Authentication Security team, focusing on building and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient authentication systems (OIDC, SSO, SAML, FIDO) for their AI platform. The role involves technical leadership, architecture, implementation of security standards, and incident response. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Developer - Authentication Team Workday is seeking a Senior Software Developer for their Authentication Security team. This role involves designing and building highly resilient authentication systems, including OIDC, SSO, SAML, and FIDO, for their AI platform. The developer will architect and implement critical authentication standards, ensure service resilience, and mentor others. Responsibilities include defining platform vision, designing services and APIs, developing tools for reliability, and collaborating with teams to resolve issues and implement features. The role requires strong experience in software development, API development, microservices, IAM concepts, and security/identity protocols. | — | 0 |
| Sr PostgreSQL Engineer Workday is seeking a Sr. PostgreSQL Engineer to join their team in Dublin, Ireland. The role focuses on scaling, optimizing, and sharding their PostgreSQL database infrastructure to support significant product growth. Responsibilities include understanding database performance, connection management, system resource utilization, tuning PostgreSQL (ideally in AWS), and capacity prediction. Experience with cross-region databases and ORMs is also of interest. | — | 0 |