Workday

Machine Learning Engineer III - Document Intelligence

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Pleasanton, CA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$136k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement LLM-based technologies for document parsing, entity extraction, and classification.
  • Apply traditional machine learning and deep learning techniques to improve model accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
  • Build scalable ML pipelines and services for data preprocessing, feature engineering, training, and inference.
  • Perform exploratory data analysis on document datasets to guide feature engineering and model development.
  • Develop generic document entity extraction, entity resolution, and document classification capabilities.
  • Write clean, maintainable, modular, testable code with automation, observability, and scalability.
  • Conduct code reviews, participate in design discussions, and contribute to hackathons and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, Workday application developers, product managers, and other ML teams.
  • Lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and independently solve ambiguous problems.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience researching, developing, and deploying production-grade ML systems.
  • Expertise in deep learning, NLP, information retrieval, and recommender systems using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience building and evaluating NLP and LLM-powered products, including RAG architectures, agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, and long-context LLM applications such as Text-to-SQL.
  • At least 2 years of Python experience focused on modular library design, asynchronous patterns, and scalable system architecture.
  • A master’s or Ph.D. in a quantitative field, or a strong portfolio of peer-reviewed research publications.
  • Proficiency in DSPy, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, graph neural networks, multimodal models, PySpark, and SQL.
  • Experience with A/B testing, knowledge graphs, and curation of golden datasets for model benchmarking.
  • Hands-on experience with the full ML lifecycle, including PEFT model fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks such as DeepEval or RAGAS, and cloud-native deployment with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and work autonomously on ambiguous problems.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field, with remote home-office options.
  • Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable 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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