Workday

Machine Learning Engineer

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2 months ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the exploration, design, implementation, and deployment of machine learning features.
  • Evaluate, scale, and provide observability for ML features and services.
  • Apply ML techniques, LLMs, and natural language understanding to business documents and customer workflow automation.
  • Develop ML solutions across Workday’s infrastructure, including training models, developing APIs, and managing product and service lifecycles.
  • Stay current with AI, LLM, RAG, autonomous-agent, and orchestration-framework advancements.
  • Serve as a technical role model for more junior engineers and technically lead a team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building applied machine learning products at scale across research, design, implementation, production, and production-based evaluation.
  • 5+ years of professional Python experience with supporting numeric libraries and production code and model deployment.
  • 5+ years of professional experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or GCP.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data or computer science, physics, math, or an equivalent qualification; a Master’s or PhD is preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience building information retrieval systems.
  • 5+ years of experience building scalable, production-level ML services on platforms such as Kubernetes.
  • 5+ years of experience with ML and deep learning frameworks and toolkits such as scikit-learn, Pandas, PySpark, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
  • 3+ years of experience developing with LLMs, RAG, and AI agents.
  • Strong understanding of statistical analysis, ML paradigms and algorithms, and natural language processing, particularly for information retrieval or recommendation systems.
  • Professional experience independently solving ambiguous problems and technically leading a team.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $128,000–$192,000 CAD for the primary and additional Canadian locations.
  • Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits and reasonable workplace accommodations.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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