Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Join the AI Agent Engineering team, where we're pioneering cutting-edge HR & Finance AI Agents that deeply integrate within the Workday suite. Be part of an innovative, agile force architecting intelligent agents that will revolutionize our customers' workday.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Principal AI Engineer who will serve as a technical architect for a cross-functional team building transformative AI agents for HR & Finance. This role is critical in defining the tooling strategy, staying ahead of industry trends, and ensuring our AI-driven solutions seamlessly integrate deeply within the Workday stack. You will be responsible for evaluating and selecting AI frameworks, orchestrating agent workflows, and leveraging LLMs, automation frameworks and enterprise AI technologies to design and develop scalable, reliable and trusted AI agents for both the HR and Finance. As agents by design will span multiple parts of the business they will excel at building trusted relationships with other leaders and have experience in leading without authority and collaborating across organizational boundaries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect AI-powered agents that integrate deeply into HR and Financial workflows, accelerating intelligent decision making.

• Understanding of AI Lifecycle: Comprehensive knowledge of the AI system lifecycle, including problem definition, data acquisition, model training, system integration, and validation

• Evaluate, select, and integrate AI tools, frameworks, and platforms to ensure scalability, efficiency, and compliance

• Stay up to date with advancements in AI, LLMs, RAG, autonomous agents and orchestration frameworks to drive innovation

• Define best practices for agent design, security, and governance in AI-driven enterprise applications.

• Work with product, engineering, and data science teams to design and implement AI-based automation solutions that enhance HR and financial operations.

• Develop strategies for multi-agent collaboration, ensuring AI agents can work together and interact effectively with users and across the business.

• Identify new opportunities to embed AI into the Workday platform.

• Collaborate with external AI vendors, cloud providers, and open-source communities to bring the best-in-class technologies into our AI stack.

• Establish monitoring, feedback loops, and continuous learning mechanisms to improve agent performance over time.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with product engineering leading the development and delivery of highly available cloud products

• 7+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation, with a focus on enterprise applications.

• Deep understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph)

• Experience with enterprise-grade AI architectures, API integration, and large-scale automation.

• Proficiency in Python, cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP), and AI model deployment.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business needs into AI-powered solutions.

• Experience in data privacy, security, and compliance for AI in enterprise environments

Other Qualifications

• Masters/Doctorate degree in a relevant field, such as Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

• Experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions using large-scale datasets, including specification design, data collection and labeling, model development, validation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.

• Hands-on experience with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and fine-tuning LLMs.

• Experience with fine-tuning models including identifying and curating datasets as well as experimenting with models for iterative improvement

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here

Primary Location: USA.WA.SeattlePrimary Location Base Pay Range: $274,000 USD - $412,000 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $249,000 USD - $443,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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