Senior Software Engineer – Gen AI

WillHire

. Lead design and development of sophisticated AI agents that reason, learn, and interact across complex business processes .

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeBoulder • California, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $171,600 - $257,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead design and development of sophisticated AI agents that reason, learn, and interact across complex business processes
Embed secure, scalable, and reliable agentic capabilities into core Adaptive Planning features
Collaborate with engineers and product managers to bring ideas to life
Lead the full AI development lifecycle—problem framing, data prep, design & development, deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement
Harness Workday Adaptive Planning’s vast enterprise datasets to tune and optimize AI models
Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and conduct critical code reviews

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years experience working on a data science, machine learning or related software development team
4+ years experience with Python supporting ML/AI libraries
4+ years of experience in object oriented programming with Java
5+ years experience in SaaS software development
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
A PhD or MS degree in a relevant field is highly desired.
Extensive experience with large language models (LLM), retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems, semantic search and text embedding models
Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
Experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions using large-scale datasets

Benefits

Comp & perks

Workday Bonus Plan
Role-specific commission/bonus
Annual refresh stock grants
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonmachine learningAI development lifecycleobject oriented programmingJavalarge language modelsretrieval augmented generationsemantic searchtext embedding modelsSaaS software development

Soft Skills

collaborationtechnical guidancecode reviews

Certifications

Bachelor's degreePhDMS degree