Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Developer Platform (Remote)

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Developer Platform team and deploy custom AI agents inside live enterprise tenants. You’ll work with senior FDEs and customers to build, operate, and optimize agentic apps across the Workday stack.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with LLM-based tool orchestration, Developer Agent, and MCP/A2A integrations, while collaborating with Product and Services teams to ensure successful deployments and measurable customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
• Hands-on coding and debugging skills (Python, Java) with REST APIs and OO design.
• Experience working directly with customers on technical deployments or integrations.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, test, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live enterprise tenants.
• Participate in technical discovery sessions with customer stakeholders and translate requirements into product configurations and integration specs.
• Document bugs and edge-case failures; share learnings with product teams to improve developer tooling.
• Contribute reusable components, sample code, and documentation for reference architectures and playbooks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver complete agentic systems across Workday platforms.

Skills

Forward Deployed Engineering

Agent engineering

REST APIs

Customer interaction

Python/Java

Travel 20%

Tools

MCP

A2A

Workday Extend

Workday Orchestrate

Workday Integrations

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Developer Platform team and deploy custom AI agents inside live enterprise tenants. You’ll work with senior FDEs and customers to build, operate, and optimize agentic apps across the Workday stack.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with LLM-based tool orchestration, Developer Agent, and MCP/A2A integrations, while collaborating with Product and Services teams to ensure successful deployments and measurable customer impact.