Principal SDE, Agentic AI Engineering
Principal SDE, Agentic AI Engineering
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Job Description
Your work days are brighter here.
At Workday it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since the happiness development and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. Thats why we look after our people communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine however that manifests: you dont need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion its what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.
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About the Team
The Globalization Platform orgs mission is to develop and evolve the language experience of Workday products while building out new agentic AI capabilities. Our ambition is to provide a fit-for-purpose language experience to our customers by partnering with internal teams through innovative and emerging technology capabilities.Our engineering teams are passionate about automation and leveraging cutting edge AI technologies to drive innovation leading to a brighter Workday for all. We value collaboration effective communication and accountability.
About the Role
You will play a key part in designing and developing the future localisation and agentic AI capabilities for Workday to achieve our language experience strategies by leveraging the power of AI. You will lead by example demonstrating architecture and product development best practices while mentoring and empowering your fellow team members to achieve success.
Building Agentic AI solutions: You will guide the creation and implementation of sophisticated AI agents including finetuning models and developing complex agentic RAG solutions to address complex business challenges and enhance our products.
Mentoring and guiding engineers: You will provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of hard-working ML engineers fostering a culture of innovation and teamwork.
Collaborating with product and engineering: Youll partner with product managers and engineering teams to define product roadmaps and ensure successful integration of AI solutions.
Staying ahead of the curve: You will keep yourself informed of the latest advancements in machine learning and AI research identifying and evaluating new technologies for potential adoption.
About You
Basic Qualifications
12 years of experience with product engineering leading the development and delivery SaaS products including familiarity with Java full-stack devops and related technologies and best practices
8 years experience in Python LangChain/LangGraph and supporting numeric libraries with experience in shipping production code and models
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with delivering high-quality practical solutions. Proven perseverance in overcoming challenging problems.
Other Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science Mathematics or Engineering.
Practical experience with generative models large language models (LLM) retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems transformer neural networks.
Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS GCP) containerization technologies (e.g. Docker) and data engineering pipelines (e.g. ETL)
Experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions using large-scale datasets including specification design data collection and labeling model development validation deployment and ongoing monitoring.
Experience with finetuning models including identifying and curating datasets as well as experimenting with models for iterative improvement
Workday is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
