Senior Director, Enterprise AI Context & Semantics

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 282,000 - 422,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Senior Director of Context and Semantics Engineering to lead the AI-driven semantic layer powering Workday's AI Agents.

You will shape the technical roadmap, scale an engineering organization, and deliver advanced RAG pipelines and vector search infrastructure for enterprise HR and Finance data. You will partner with VP level stakeholders to ensure secure, compliant, and high-performance AI platforms, balancing innovation with reliability in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience in distributed systems, data platforms, or AI infra.
• 5+ years in senior engineering leadership (Director level+), managing managers and scaling 50+ engineers.
• 3+ years leading teams building AI/ML infra, semantic search engines, vector databases, or Knowledge Graphs.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and mentor a world-class engineering org focused on AI context and data orchestration.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for semantic layer, vector databases, and search capabilities.
• Lead enterprise-grade RAG pipelines and secure, compliant AI infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI infrastructure

Leadership

Semantic search

RAG pipelines

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Elasticsearch

Pinecone

Milvus

Neo4j

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Senior Director of Context and Semantics Engineering to lead the AI-driven semantic layer powering Workday's AI Agents.

You will shape the technical roadmap, scale an engineering organization, and deliver advanced RAG pipelines and vector search infrastructure for enterprise HR and Finance data. You will partner with VP level stakeholders to ensure secure, compliant, and high-performance AI platforms, balancing innovation with reliability in a