Senior Manager or Director of Machine Learning Engineering - Agent Factory

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About the Team

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.

Join the AI Agent Engineering team, where we're pioneering cutting-edge HR & Finance AI Agents that deeply integrate within the Workday suite. Be part of an innovative, agile force architecting intelligent agents that will revolutionize our customers' workday.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Senior Manager or Director of AI Agent Engineering to lead the development of AI agents for our HR and Finance business. You will be responsible for building and mentoring a high-performing engineering team, driving technical excellence and ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable and secure AI agent solutions that seamlessly integrate with our Workday ecosystem and deliver outstanding experiences for our customers.
 

Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of exceptional AI agent engineers.

• Ensure timely project delivery to exceptional standards of our AI agents.

• Work closely with product managers, data scientists and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Collaborate with architects and principal engineers to ensure seamless integration with the Workday platform

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement and learning.

• Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge AI technologies, including LLMs, RAG, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph)

• Collaborate with external vendors and open-source communities to leverage best-in-class AI technologies

• Ensure all AI solutions adhere to data privacy, security, and compliance standards

• Implement robust testing, monitoring and feedback loops to ensure agent performance and reliability

• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of AI agent solutions within the Workday environment.

About You

Director of Machine Learning Engineer

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering leadership, with a strong focus on AI/ML and cloud-based systems. 

• 5+ years of experience with design and development for mission critical systems at scale

Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineer

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering leadership, with a strong focus on AI/ML and cloud-based systems. 

• 4+ years of experience with design and development for mission critical systems at scale

Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven ability to seek out and hire the highest performing professionals to build cutting edge produc