Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Developer Platform

Workday; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for its Developer Platform FDE team. You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer strategy, architecting and deploying custom AI agents inside live customer environments.

You’ll work with the Workday Developer Platform stack, run on the Workday Agent Harness, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Services, and Sales to deliver measurable business results.

Qualifications

• 10+ 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, OO design, system architecture.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy, and debug custom AI agents and agentic apps for enterprise environments.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with senior customer leaders to translate requirements into product builds.
• Provide feedback to product and engineering to improve developer toolkit and shape roadmap.
• Identify patterns to turn field insights into automated, out-of-the-box capabilities.
• Lead technical development stream and mentor other engineers.

Tools

Workday Extend

Workday Orchestrate

Workday Integrations

Job description

Workday is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for its Developer Platform FDE team. You will bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer strategy, architecting and deploying custom AI agents inside live customer environments.

You’ll work with the Workday Developer Platform stack, run on the Workday Agent Harness, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Services, and Sales to deliver measurable business results.