Senior AI Orchestrator for Production-Grade Agents

HR Tech Job; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 186,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday in Boulder seeks a Senior AI Engineer to drive end-to-end system design and product integration for intelligent agents within Agent Factory. You will work across AI capabilities, platform architecture, and human workflows to deliver scalable, secure, and auditable AI solutions.

The role emphasizes governance, latency optimization, cost management, and collaboration with ML engineers to embed AI safely into Workday’s products at global scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend architecture, distributed systems, and API design, plus 1+ years building production-grade LLM/agentic systems or 5+ years in ML/AI engineering with 2+ years shipping LLM-backed products.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating large models (LLMs, Foundation Models) and modern AI APIs into enterprise products.
• 1+ year designing and scaling AI orchestration architectures—including multi-agent frameworks, routing layers, or advanced RAG pipelines.
• 4+ years of experience optimizing application performance with modern LLM constraints such as token management and context-window efficiency.
• 4+ years of proven experience leveraging cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) to deploy scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end system architecture for AI agents and product integration.
• Implement production-grade AI orchestration and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Balance latency, cost, and reliability while delivering robust guardrails for data privacy and explainability.
• Lead engineering workstreams, mentor junior engineers, and ensure secure, governance-aligned deployments.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

API design

LLM/agentic systems

AI integration

Cloud platforms

Performance optimization

Latency management

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred)

Tools

AWS

GCP

LLM frameworks

AI APIs

Job description

Workday in Boulder seeks a Senior AI Engineer to drive end-to-end system design and product integration for intelligent agents within Agent Factory. You will work across AI capabilities, platform architecture, and human workflows to deliver scalable, secure, and auditable AI solutions.

The role emphasizes governance, latency optimization, cost management, and collaboration with ML engineers to embed AI safely into Workday’s products at global scale.