Sr. Software Engineer- AI Engineer

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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 mindset. We serve thousands of the world’s largest enterprises, and now we're building agentic workflows that will transform how finance teams interact with planning systems—making them more intelligent, proactive, and efficient.

We’re looking for highly creative, results-driven, and deeply technical AI/ML Engineers to help us shape the future of financial planning. If you're passionate about building real production-grade AI that solves complex business problems and delivers measurable impact—this is your team.

About the Role

Are you driven to apply cutting-edge AI to real-world enterprise challenges? As an AI/ML Engineer on the Workday Adaptive Planning team, 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, developing intelligent systems that automate, adapt, and assist users throughout the financial planning journey. Your work will directly impact thousands of global enterprises and millions of end users.

What You’ll Do:

• Build Agentic Workflows: Design and develop sophisticated AI agents that reason, learn, and interact across complex business processes to enhance productivity and decision-making.

• Integrate AI Frameworks: Embed secure, scalable, and reliable agentic capabilities into core Adaptive Planning features—driving smart automation for FP&A users.

• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with world-class engineers and product managers to bring ideas to life—from concept to customer impact.

• ​Own Projects End-to-End: Lead the full AI development lifecycle—problem framing, data prep, model training, deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

• Leverage Rich Planning Data: Harness Workday Adaptive Planning’s vast enterprise datasets to tune and optimize your AI models for high-value outcomes.

We’re looking for bold thinkers with strong technical chops and a product mindset. You’ll need to move fast, think big, and stay grounded in solving real customer problems through AI. If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to talk.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

• 5+ years experience working on a data science, machine learning or related software development team.

• 5+ years experience with Python and supporting numeric libraries, with experience in shipping production code and models.

• 3+ years of experience object oriented programming in Java

• 2+ years experience in machine learning and deep learning frameworks & toolkits such