OpenAI Workday Engineer at OpenAI responsible for designing, building, and operating systems that power critical people workflows. Role involves building reliable integrations, improving system architecture, and automating complex workflows.
Responsibilities
We're hiring a Workday Engineer to help design, build, and operate the systems that power critical people workflows at OpenAI.
This is a highly technical role for someone who combines strong Workday expertise with real engineering fluency. You'll build reliable integrations, improve system architecture, automate complex workflows, and help connect Workday to internal tools, external platforms, and emerging AI-driven systems.
You should be comfortable going beyond configuration work. We're looking for someone who can reason through ambiguous systems problems, write and debug technical solutions, work effectively in Git-based environments, and use modern developer workflows, including CLI-driven tooling, to build and operate with speed and discipline.
You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams across People, Finance, Security, and Engineering, including our People Innovations team, to build systems that are secure, scalable, and practical. Some work will involve improving mature production infrastructure; some will involve building entirely new workflows and capabilities from scratch.
Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations, applications, and workflow automations across domains such as payroll, benefits, recruiting, performance, and case management
Improve the reliability, quality, and scalability of People systems through strong engineering, testing, and operational practices
Build technical solutions that connect Workday with internal platforms, external vendors, and AI-powered tooling
Contribute to more agentic internal workflows by helping design systems that combine HR data, automation, orchestration, and intelligent tooling
Use Git-based development practices, code review, and structured change management to deliver safely in a fast-moving environment
Use CLI-based tools and developer workflows to build, test, troubleshoot, and support production systems efficiently
Partner with stakeholders across People, Finance, Security, and Engineering to translate business needs into durable technical solutions
Establish and raise standards for observability, security, supportability, and long-term maintainability across the People systems stack
Qualification
Experience with observabilityWe are an equal opportunity employerFor additional information
Required
5-10 years of experience in Workday engineering, integrations, platform automation, or adjacent systems engineering roles
Strong hands-on experience with Workday technologies such as EIB, Studi
Preferred
Experience integrating Workday with finance systems, identity systems, recruiting tools, case management platforms, or internal developer platforms
Experience with observability, alerting, and production support for business-critical workflows
Experience building internal tools or automation frameworks in high-growth environments
Familiarity with secure systems design and governance in environments handling sensitive employee data
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
