Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Developer Platform
Core
Build, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live enterprise customer environments using the Workday Developer Platform.
Role type
Forward Deployed Engineer (Developer Platform)
Builds
Custom AI agents, agentic apps, and orchestrations running on Workday rails
Domain
Enterprise HR and Finance / AI Agents / Developer Platform
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Agent engineering, LLM orchestration, Python, REST APIs, customer technical discovery, deployment lifecycle management
Preferred skills
Workday platform knowledge, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), agent development kits, LLM system evaluation
Technologies
Workday Agent Harness, Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, MCP, A2A, A2UI, Workday Extend AI, Workday Data Cloud, Sana
Responsibilities
Build and debug custom AI agents in live enterprise tenants, participate in technical discovery sessions, document bugs and friction points for product teams, productize field insights into reusable components, collaborate on total agentic systems, own technical workstreams within customer engagements
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
