Enterprise AI Agent Engineer & Deployment Lead

Workday, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 72,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Developer Platform FDE team in Ireland.

You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer strategy, building custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live environments. You’ll work across the Workday Developer Platform stack, run agents on the Workday Agent Harness, and collaborate with product, engineering, and services teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering or related roles, leading complex enterprise engagements.
• Hands-on coding and debugging skills with Python, Java, and REST APIs; strong system architecture knowledge.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps to solve enterprise problems in live environments.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with senior customer leaders to translate requirements into enterprise-grade builds.
• Provide feedback to product and engineering to improve the developer toolkit and influence the roadmap.
• Turn field insights into standardized, automated, out-of-the-box product capabilities with reference architectures, playbooks.
• Collaborate with FDEs across Workday AI to deliver complete agentic systems and mentor engineers.

Skills

Forward Deployed Eng

Python/Java

Executive engagement

REST APIs

Tools

Workday Extend

Workday Orchestrate

REST APIs

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Developer Platform FDE team in Ireland.

You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer strategy, building custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live environments. You’ll work across the Workday Developer Platform stack, run agents on the Workday Agent Harness, and collaborate with product, engineering, and services teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.