Senior AI Agent Engineer — Flexible/Hybrid (Remote)

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge hands-on agent development with customer-driven strategy on the Developer Platform FDE team.

You will architect, build, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live customer environments, using the Workday Developer Platform stack and MCP/A2A standards. You will work with internal teams to deliver governance, security, and scalable patterns while guiding customers through deployment milestones and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering or similar.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs or agentic systems.
• Experience with enterprise deployments and live data.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and debug custom AI agents in live enterprise tenants.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with customer stakeholders.
• Provide feedback to Developer Agent toolkit and capture telemetry.
• Transform field insights into automated, out-of-the-box capabilities.
• Collaborate across Workday teams to deliver full agentic systems.

Skills

Forward Deployed Eng

Agent engineering

REST APIs

Enterprise deployments

Python/Java

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge hands-on agent development with customer-driven strategy on the Developer Platform FDE team.

You will architect, build, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live customer environments, using the Workday Developer Platform stack and MCP/A2A standards. You will work with internal teams to deliver governance, security, and scalable patterns while guiding customers through deployment milestones and