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).
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| Principal AI Researcher Workday AI Research is a newly built, elite organization dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in AI to power the Agentic Enterprise. As a Principal AI Researcher, you will be a technical founder and visionary, defining research roadmaps for agentic reasoning, long-horizon planning, and model alignment. This role bridges the gap between groundbreaking theory and massive-scale application, with a focus on foundational model research (pre-training, post-training, alignment) and leading contributions to the AI community through publications and open-source releases. You will also partner with engineering to integrate research into production-ready services and mentor the research team. | PretrainAgent | 9 |