Workday

Prinicipal Forward Deployed Engineer

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3 days ago
Pleasanton, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$173k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, debug, and optimize AI agents and integrations in live enterprise customer environments.
  • Lead technical discovery with customer stakeholders and translate business requirements into product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
  • Capture field telemetry, edge-case failures, and customer friction to influence the product roadmap and engineering backlog.
  • Transform recurring deployment challenges and custom fixes into standardized, automated product capabilities.
  • Collaborate with Services leads, AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, and Account Teams throughout customer engagements.
  • Guide deployments from kickoff through graduation within standard six-month deployment cycles.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
  • Hands-on coding and debugging skills in Python, Java, or similar technologies.
  • 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.
  • Ability to derive generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues and communicate technical challenges to non-technical leadership.
  • Preferred: applied experience with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems, including prompt/context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent orchestration frameworks.

Benefits

  • Base salary ranges from $173,300 to $309,600 depending on location, with the primary Pleasanton, California range of $206,400 to $309,600; the role may also be eligible for a bonus plan, commission or bonus, and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flex Work combines remote and in-person work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
Workday

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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