Workday

Forward Deployed Engineer

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3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, and debug AI agents and integrations within live enterprise tenant environments.
  • Lead technical discovery sessions and translate customer requirements into product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
  • Troubleshoot complex customer workflows, live data issues, and deployment configurations through hands-on software development and debugging.
  • Capture field telemetry, edge-case failures, and customer friction to influence product roadmaps and engineering backlogs.
  • Convert recurring deployment challenges and custom fixes into standardized, automated product capabilities.
  • Collaborate with Services leads, AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, Engineering, and Account Teams to deliver customer engagements.
  • Guide deployments from kickoff through graduation and enable customers to operate independently within standard six-month deployment cycles.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
  • Hands-on coding and debugging skills using Python, Java, or similar languages.
  • Understanding of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.
  • Experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments, live data troubleshooting, and custom workflow integration.
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.
  • Ability to derive generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues and communicate technical challenges to non-technical leadership.
  • Strong collaboration skills in multidisciplinary Product, Engineering, Services, account, and delivery teams.
  • Preferred: applied experience with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems, including prompt/context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent orchestration frameworks.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
  • Primary location listed as Ireland, with a six-month standard deployment cycle and up to 20% customer-site travel.
  • Eligible roles may receive Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants; comprehensive benefits are referenced.
  • Workday provides reasonable accommodations and is an equal opportunity employer.

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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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