AI Engineer

Your work days are brighter here.

Were 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 were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Agent Factory is where Workdays next chapter gets built. Were forming small senior cross-functional AI teams that bring together product leaders machine learning engineers and full-stack builders to create intelligent agents used by millions of people every day. This is production-grade AIdeeply embedded into Workdays platformnot research experiments or maintenance work. Teams own problems end to end collaborate tightly across disciplines and use the right tools to solve real customer challenges at global scale. Youll work at the intersection of AI platform architecture and human workflows with the autonomy to shape how agents reason act and scale responsibly. High trust high expectations and real impact. Engineering but brighter.

About the Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer in Agent Factory youll design and build the core ML systems behind Workdays next generation of AI agents. Working within a small senior cross-functional pod youll own how models agent logic and orchestration layers come together in productionacross the full lifecycle from problem framing and data strategy to deployment monitoring and continuous improvement. Youll implement and evolve frameworks for LLM-powered agents including RAG pipelines workflow orchestration evaluation and feedback loops ensuring solutions are scalable observable and enterprise-ready. This role sits at the intersection of ML and platform engineering: partnering closely with software engineers product managers and data scientists to integrate agents deeply into the Workday stack. Youll stay hands-on with emerging techniques in agentic architectures while applying strong engineering judgment to turn them into systems that are reliable explainable and built to operate at global scale.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years experience as a member of a data science machine learning engineering or other relevant software development team building applied machine learning products at scale including taking products through applied research design implementation production and production-based evaluation

• 2 years of professional experience in machine learning and deep learning frameworks & toolkits such as Pytorch TensorFlow

• 3 years of professional experience in building services to host machine learning models in production at scale

• 1 years of demonstrated experience working with large language models (LLMs) text generation models and/or graph neural network models for real-world use cases

• 3 years of proven experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS GCP etc.)

• Bachelors (Masters or PhD preferred) degree in engineering computer science physics math or equivalent

Other Qualifications:

• Stay up to date with advancements in AI LLMs RAG autonomous agents and orchestration frameworks to drive innovation

• Deep understanding of statistical analysis unsupervised and supervised machine learning algorithms and natural language processing for information retrieval and/or recommendation system use cases

• Professional experience in independently solving ambiguous open-ended problems and technically leading teams

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships across teams and stakeholders

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here .

Primary Location:

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $180200 CAD - $270200 CAD

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $138000 - $208000 CAD

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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