Cybersecurity Automation Engineer: AI-Driven SecOps

Workday, Inc.; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join SecAIE, owning the agent, eval, and application work powering Active Defense.

You will build eval harnesses, agent scaffolds, and UIs on top of security data to enable detection, response, and threat intel teams to move from vague asks to working systems. You will bring working knowledge of cybersecurity practices and experience with AI-augmented development, partnering with security experts to deliver reliable, measurable security

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills with hands-on experience shipping production software APIs, services, batch jobs, or backends.
• Hands-on experience building or evaluating LLM/agent systems (harnesses, eval, tracing, or agentic pipelines) or strong AI-augmented development with Copilot.
• Comfort designing/evolving schemas and data contracts and UIs on real data, not mock prototypes.
• Working knowledge of core cybersecurity practices (identity, access, secrets handling) for security outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own agent-adjacent application work: eval harnesses, agent scaffolds, and UIs for security partners.
• Design, build, and evolve schemas and data contracts for shared objects.
• Take vague partner requests from scope to shipped solutions with design, review, rollout, and runbooks.
• Build and maintain integrations across security tools and enterprise platforms (SOAR, SIEM, vulnerability scanners).
• Elevate AI-enabled engineering with reusable scaffolds, eval that catches drift, and strong review discipline.

Skills

Python

LLM/agent systems

API development

Security concepts

Cloud / AWS

Tools

LangChain

LangSmith

LangGraph

React

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join SecAIE, owning the agent, eval, and application work powering Active Defense.

You will build eval harnesses, agent scaffolds, and UIs on top of security data to enable detection, response, and threat intel teams to move from vague asks to working systems. You will bring working knowledge of cybersecurity practices and experience with AI-augmented development, partnering with security experts to deliver reliable, measurable security