Sr AI Engineer - Evisort Agentic Dev

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

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Vancouver, Canada, to design and build AI features and intelligent agents for Contract Lifecycle Management.

You’ll own backend architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade AI integrations using large language models and orchestration frameworks. You will leverage Workday’s data and cloud infrastructure to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions, while collaborating across product, ML infra, and customer teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, backend, distributed systems, and production-grade code.
• 3+ years integrating AI capabilities into enterprise products.
• 1–2+ years building with AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• 4+ years deploying apps on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 2+ years with containerized, cloud-native environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
• Proficient in full-stack development (React, TypeScript, Python).
• Strong emphasis on observability, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

AI integration

AI orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIdx)

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

GitOps / Terraform / Helm / ArgoCD

Web UI (React, TypeScript)

Python (FastAPI, Django)

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

PostgreSQL / Redis / messaging (Kafka,

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

Kafka

SQS

React

TypeScript

FastAPI

Django

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 Evisort AI team at Workday, which powers Document Intelligence AI and Workday's CLM and Contract Intelligence offerings. Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. We build ground breaking AI technology that can read and understand contract language to make every part of the deal‑making process from drafting, negotiating, reviewing, approving, or managing the contracts happen faster, better, with reduced risks. We build AI first products, and automate manual work, freeing up our customers time and accelerating their businesses. You will be joining the Evisort AI team, which functions as a startup within Workday. This is your opportunity to build at the pace of innovation of a startup, while backed by the enormous support and impacting Workday's incredible customer base of 70M+ users.

About the Role As a Senior AI Engineer, your primary focus will be building AI features and intelligent agents specifically for the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) domain, though you will also be expected to contribute to other areas of the product as needed. While AI development is the primary deliverable, this is first and foremost a software engineering role requiring deep expertise in backend architecture and distributed systems. You will be responsible for architecting advanced LLM‑driven solutions and agentic workflows that are not only innovative but also enterprise‑grade—meaning they are highly available, scalable, and secure. By leveraging Workday's rich datasets and computing resources, you will build the robust infrastructure necessary to deliver transformative AI value to our customers at scale. In addition to contributing to feature and service development, you must have an approach of continuous improvement, passion for quality, scale, and security. You must be curious and prepared to question or challenge choices and practices where they don't make sense to you or could be improved. You also should have a product approach and strong intuition around how AI can drive a better customer experience. Lastly, a strong sense of ownership and teamwork are essential to succeed in this role.

Operational Excellence A key component of this role is the continuous evaluation and improvement of the customer experience with AI agents. You will be required to rigorously assess agents’ performance and user interactions to ensure our intelligent solutions are meeting user’ s needs. Furthermore, you will actively work to integrate these agents into the broader Workday agents ecosystem, ensuring seamless interoperability and consistent AI value across the entire Workday platform.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy emphasis on backend architecture, distributed systems, and a proven track record of shipping high‑availability production code at scale.
• Strong fundamental software engineering skills (system design, scalability, and performance optimization) are a non‑negotiable primary qualification for this role.
• 3+ years of experience integrating AI capabilities (LLMs, Foundation Models) into enterprise products, framed within the context of robust software service extensions.
• 1‑2+ years building with AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) with a focus on creating predictable, reliable, and maintainable agentic workflows.
• 4+ years of proven experience leveraging cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) to deploy highly responsive, scalable systems.
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience deploying and operating services in containerized, cloud‑native environments (Docker, Kubernetes), with exposure to infrastructure‑as‑code and GitOps tooling (e.g., Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).

Other Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• Product-First AI Mindset: Deep focus on business value, user experience, and applying deep learning or large models directly to solve practical end‑user challenges.
• System Design & Reusability: Proven ability to architect robust application layers that wrap around AI models, establishing reusable patterns for system predictability, error handling, and seamless UX integration.
• Experimentation & Evaluation: Skilled in rapid prototyping, benchmarking model outputs against product requirements, and setting up automated evaluation metrics (e.g., assessing retrieval quality and agentic behavior).
• Hands‑on experience with production observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Datadog) to debug, trace, and measure live systems.
• Familiarity with data persistence and async processing - relational databases and schema migrations (e.g., PostgreSQL), caching (e.g., Redis), and message/queue or task workflows (e.g., Celery, Kafka, SQS).
• A track record of writing well‑tested, maintainable production code with attention to code quality, security scanning, and dependency hygiene (e.g., unit/integration tests, SonarQube, dependency tooling).
• Familiarity with full‑stack development - building web UIs (e.g., React, TypeScript) and backend services/REST APIs in Python (e.g., FastAPI, Django).
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Proven track record of technically leading engineering workstreams, taking ownership of the development lifecycle and mentoring junior‑to‑mid level engineers.
• Collaborative Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills, with a knack for bridging the gap between product management, design, and foundational ML infrastructure teams.
• Thrives in Ambiguity: Highly autonomous builder capable of taking open‑ended product goals and breaking them down into concrete, scalable engineering realities.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

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: CAN.BC.Vancouver

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $169,000 CAD - $253,000 CAD

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $169,000 - $253,000 CAD

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.

Prospective applicants for employment are required to meet all applicable legal standards, including the right to work in the U.S. and are expected to meet any necessary criteria, such as background and security checks. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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