UKG

Forward Deployed Engineer III - Eng

UKG
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8 days ago

Base Salary

$102k - $169k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with customers to understand business challenges, technical constraints, and innovation opportunities.
  • Own technical delivery for customer workstreams from discovery and design through build, testing, go-live, and operational handoff.
  • Build production-grade software components, APIs, integrations, event-driven workflows, data pipelines, and automations.
  • Prototype and implement AI-enabled workflows, including intelligent intake, summarization, routing, recommendations, extraction, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Translate ambiguous requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to identify platform gaps and productize repeatable customer solutions.
  • Create reusable components, templates, reference architectures, implementation notes, and internal tools.
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs to customers, engineers, product leaders, executives, and other stakeholders.
  • Apply secure, auditable, privacy-conscious designs with appropriate access controls, monitoring, evaluation, and failure-mode handling.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building software, developer platforms, cloud applications, AI-enabled products, technical solutions, or production integrations.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, cloud services, data flows, testing, deployment, monitoring, and debugging.
  • Experience building and deploying production systems or customer-facing technical solutions.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, learn new domains quickly, and translate business requirements into practical solutions.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills in customer-facing or cross-functional environments.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Hands-on familiarity with AI-enabled tools, LLMs, copilots, workflow automation, or agentic patterns.
  • Sound judgment regarding security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI use.
  • Preferred experience with HCM, Payroll, Workforce Management, ERP, IAM, SSO, REST APIs, event-driven systems, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, identity integrations, reusable frameworks, agent patterns, and direct customer collaboration.

Benefits

  • The role offers real flexibility and UKG benefits and rewards.
  • The position is eligible for a performance-based bonus plan and restricted stock unit awards in addition to base pay.

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Forward Deployed
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About UKG

10,000+ employees

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.

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