Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 46% 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 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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 - 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 |
| 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 |
| Technical Consultant for Workday CLM Evisort This role is for a Technical Consultant on the Workday CLM and Contract Intelligence team, which uses AI to make contracts searchable and simplify deal-making. The consultant will provide expertise, deliver solutions to customers, and help scale the organization by creating repeatable processes. The role requires experience in business process analysis, SaaS project delivery, CLM/Contract Intelligence, and API integrations. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr. Grants Management Implementation Consultant, Higher Education This role is for a Sr. Grants Management Implementation Consultant at Workday, a company that uses AI tools to enhance its enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The consultant will partner with colleges and universities to design, configure, and deploy Workday Grants Management solutions, focusing on implementation, data conversion, integrations, and testing. While the company utilizes AI tools and has an AI platform, the core function of this role is consulting and implementation of a financial management system, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Finance Business Architect This role focuses on architecting the finance function to be AI-ready by establishing data quality, governance, and system integration foundations. It involves translating finance processes into scalable system and data designs, ensuring data integrity, and defining master data management standards to support AI and advanced analytics use cases within the finance organization. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Security (Pipedream) Workday is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Security for their Pipedream team. This role will own platform security end-to-end, including tooling, process, threat modeling, and audits, while also working hands-on in the codebase to find and fix vulnerabilities. The engineer will be responsible for securing cloud infrastructure, leading incident response, and owning compliance work like SOC 2 and HIPAA. The role requires extensive experience in product security, application security, or software engineering with a security focus, and experience securing cloud platforms. | — | 0 |
| Analytics Sr Software Engineer (US Federal) This role is for an Analytics Sr Software Engineer on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team at Workday, focusing on building and maintaining a scalable, reliable, and automated services framework for Prism Analytics within Workday Federal deployments. The role involves CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, tracing, Kubernetes platform development, infrastructure automation, and ensuring security and compliance for U.S. federal government contracts. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer--Pipedream Connect Software Development Engineer to expand core capabilities of Pipedream Connect and its catalog of connectors, enabling AI Agents with integrations to third-party applications and APIs for enterprise-scale impact. Works with Go, Node.js, Rust, Rails, Kotlin, SQL, Redis, and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Business Systems Analyst (Business Finance, Tax, & Treasury) This role is for a Business Systems Analyst on the WOW Finance team at Workday, focusing on technology services for financial, payroll, and HR functions. The analyst will drive process and system improvements within Workday's application, partner with business partners to understand needs, and collaborate with the Workday product team on new agents and features. Responsibilities include analyzing business problems, recommending solutions for automation and efficiency, maintaining and configuring Workday solutions, and supporting change management and testing. | — | 0 |
| Sr. SDET Engineer Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) responsible for ensuring the reliability and quality of Workday's platform, focusing on CI/CD pipelines for authentication and security features. The role involves test automation, performance improvements, and mentoring. | — | 0 |
| Analytics Sr Software Engineer (US Federal) This role is for an Analytics Sr Software Engineer on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team at Workday, focusing on building and maintaining a scalable, reliable, and automated services framework for Prism Analytics within Workday Federal deployments. The role involves CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, tracing, Kubernetes platform development, infrastructure automation, and ensuring security and compliance for U.S. federal government contracts. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Development Engineer Workday is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of their multi-cloud platform services. This role involves designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems, driving cross-organizational technical strategy, and establishing best practices for reliability, observability, and automation. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and programming languages like Go and Python, with a focus on building internal platforms and infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Consultant - Payroll, FSI and PS Industries Workday is seeking a Senior Consultant for their Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) and Professional Services (PS) Industry team. The role focuses on the successful implementation of Workday's Payroll solution, requiring expertise in Payroll software and consulting experience. Responsibilities include configuring the Workday solution, assisting clients with testing, and mentoring new consultants. The ideal candidate will have experience in Payroll software solutions and consulting, with a strong understanding of FSI or PS industry best practices. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, DevOps - Lifecycle Platform (US Federal) Software Development Engineer on the Lifecycle Platform team at Workday, focusing on building and deploying large-scale, fault-tolerant systems for public and private cloud environments (AWS, GCP). The role involves ensuring scalability, availability, automation, performance, and security of distributed web services, with a strong emphasis on SRE/DevOps practices and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| System Owner-Boundary Compliance Owner - US Federal This role is a System Owner for Workday's US Federal Government contracts, focusing on compliance boundaries like FedRAMP and DoD ILs. The role involves cross-functional ownership of system health, security posture, risk mitigation, and compliance control assurance. It also requires future-proofing the system by assessing the impact of AI/ML capabilities and new product SKUs, ensuring safe and secure integration, and optimizing cloud costs. The position requires deep experience with US Government compliance frameworks and the ability to drive large-scale architectural and security roadmaps. | — | 0 |