Senior Software Engineer (Gen AI)

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We're obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we're shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.

About the Team

Are you energized by seeing AI products come to life in real-world settings-especially when they directly impact how companies plan their workforce and finances?

At Workday, our Adaptive Planning organization is on a mission to reimagine the FP&A customer journey with an AI-first attitude. We're building agentic workflows that will transform how finance teams interact with planning systems-making them more intelligent, proactive, and efficient.

About the Role

Are you driven to apply innovative AI to real-world enterprise challenges? You'll help redefine how financial planning is done at scale-by designing and building intelligent, agentic workflows that power the next generation of FP&A solutions. You'll be at the forefront of bringing "AI-first" thinking into production.

What You'll Do:

• Technical leadership: Lead design and development of sophisticated AI agents that reason, learn, and interact across complex business processes.
• Integrate AI Frameworks: Embed secure, scalable, and reliable agentic capabilities into core Adaptive Planning features.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with extraordinary engineers and product managers to bring ideas to life.
• Own Projects End-to-End: Lead the full AI development lifecycle-problem framing, data prep, design & development, deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Leverage Rich Planning Data: Harness Workday Adaptive Planning's vast enterprise datasets to tune and optimize your AI models.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and conduct critical code reviews.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years experience working on a data science, machine learning or related software development team.
• 4+ years experience with Python supporting ML/AI libraries, with experience in shipping secure, production solutions.
• 4+ years of experience in object oriented programming with Java.
• 5+ years experience in SaaS software development.

Other Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering). A PhD or MS degree is highly desired.
• Extensive experience with LLMs, RAG systems, semantic search, text embedding models, MCP, langgraph, vibe coding, transformer neural networks, and related frameworks.
• Experience with cloud computing (e.g., AWS, GCP), containerization (e.g., Docker), and data engineering pipelines (e.g., ETL).
• Experience developing and deploying ML solutions using large-scale datasets.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.

• Primary Location (USA.CO.Boulder): $171,600 USD - $257,400 USD
• Additional US Location(s): $163,000 USD - $288,000 USD

Application Deadline: 06/08/2026

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. We spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.