LLM Engineer

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Tel Aviv, Israel

Workday is seeking an LLM Engineer to develop and implement cutting-edge LLM technologies for innovative hiring agents. The role involves researching and experimenting with LLM solutions, implementing them into end-user applications, designing evaluation frameworks, and understanding product challenges to make software-building decisions. The position requires hands-on experience in Data Science/ML, developing LLM-based products and agents, Python, LLM evaluations, and modern AI tools and practices like RAG.

What you'd actually do

  1. Dive deep into LLM technologies, actively researching and experimenting with new solutions to drive innovation in hiring practices.
  2. Implement practical applications of LLM research findings into end-user-facing applications, creating scalable and impactful tools that directly impact clients.
  3. Design and implement LLM evaluation frameworks to assess and integrate new AI models, parameters, and techniques
  4. Adopt lean methodologies to swiftly meet business objectives, swiftly iterating based on client feedback and being unafraid to take risks and learn from failures.
  5. Deeply understand product challenges to make intelligent and efficient software-building decisions.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science/ML
  • 2+ years experience developing agents and other LLM-based products
  • Proven experience with Python.
  • Experience with LLM evaluations
  • Experience developing with modern AI tools (Cursor/Copilot/etc.)
  • Advanced knowledge of modern LLM practices (RAG/MCPs/etc.)
  • Fluent in English

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other relevant fields, advantage for a M.Sc.
  • Experience with Conversational AI
  • Experience in Data Science or MLOps
  • Experience in software architecture design
  • Experience in a cloud-based environment and CI/CD flows

What the JD emphasized

  • 2+ years experience developing agents and other LLM-based products
  • Experience with LLM evaluations

Other signals

  • deploying LLMs at global scale
  • building world-class products
  • innovative hiring agents