Senior AI Engineer - Production Agent Orchestration

Workday, Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 169,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Hybrid/remote options

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is expanding its AI agent initiative and seeking a hands-on, senior engineering leader to design and deliver end-to-end intelligent agents that power HR and Finance workflows.

You’ll own the architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams across React frontends, APIs, and data models in a fast-paced, security‑conscious environment. You will implement guardrails for privacy, explainability, and cost efficiency while delivering scalable, production-ready solutions that

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years with backend web frameworks; Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django preferred.
• 2+ years integrating large models (LLMs, foundation models) and modern AI APIs into production.
• 1+ years designing and scaling AI orchestration architectures — multi-agent or tool-calling frameworks, routing layers, or advanced RAG pipelines.
• 4+ years using cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) to deploy responsive, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic workflows—orchestration and routing layers, tool calling, retrieval pipelines, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
• Build and operate end-to-end features across React frontends, backend microservices, APIs, data models, and CI/CD.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar; partner with Product, UX, ML, and platform teams.
• Present work in design reviews, demos, and executive updates; lead high-visibility projects end to end.
• Own latency, cost per interaction, context-window efficiency, determinism, and graceful failure.

Skills

Senior software dev

Backend frameworks

LLMs integration

AI orchestration

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/SE

Tools

React

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Workday, Inc. is expanding its AI agent initiative and seeking a hands-on, senior engineering leader to design and deliver end-to-end intelligent agents that power HR and Finance workflows.

You’ll own the architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams across React frontends, APIs, and data models in a fast-paced, security‑conscious environment. You will implement guardrails for privacy, explainability, and cost efficiency while delivering scalable, production-ready solutions that