Senior AI Agent Deployment Engineer

Workday; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Developer Platform FDE team in Pleasanton, CA. You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy, building custom AI agents and apps inside live customer environments.

You’ll work with the Workday Developer Platform stack, wire agents to governed tools, and ensure governance via MCP, A2A, and REST APIs. Expect travel up to 20% as you guide deployments through milestones and scale adoption

Qualifications

• 7+ years in forward deployed engineering or related roles.
• Hands-on with LLMs or agent orchestration.
• Coding and debugging skills in Python/Java with REST APIs.
• Experience with enterprise customer deployments and technical engagement.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, configure, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps in live enterprise tenants.
• Lead technical discovery sessions translating business requirements into robust configurations and specs.
• Provide feedback to improve developer toolkit and capture field telemetry for product roadmap.
• Transform recurring deployment challenges into standardized, automated product capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver complete agentic systems.

Skills

LLMs & agentics

REST APIs

Python/Java

Customer engagement

Tools

Workday Extend

MCP

A2A

Agent Harness

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Developer Platform FDE team in Pleasanton, CA. You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy, building custom AI agents and apps inside live customer environments.

You’ll work with the Workday Developer Platform stack, wire agents to governed tools, and ensure governance via MCP, A2A, and REST APIs. Expect travel up to 20% as you guide deployments through milestones and scale adoption