# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will bridge hands-on software development with high-impact customer technical strategy. You will partner with enterprise customers to architect, deploy, debug, and optimize Workday’s AI agents and developer platform solutions within live customer environments.

Working across the full deployment lifecycle, you will collaborate with AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, and Workday Services leads. Your primary objective is twofold: drive immediate customer success and eliminate implementation friction over time by embedding field-tested solutions back into the core platform.

**Responsibilities**

- Technical Deployment & Engineering: Deploy, configure, and debug AI agents and integrations directly inside live enterprise tenant environments against complex customer workflows and real-world data.

- Customer Discovery & Solution Architecture: Lead technical discovery sessions with key customer stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into robust product configurations, POCs, and integration specs.

- Product Feedback Loop: Capture field telemetry, edge-case failures, and customer friction points to directly influence the core product roadmap and engineering backlog.

- Productization of Field Insights: Identify recurring deployment challenges and transform custom fixes into standardized, automated out-of-the-box product capabilities.

- Cross-Functional Ecosystem Alignment: Partner closely with Workday Services leads, AI Deployment Architects, and Account Teams to ensure seamless project delivery while staying focused on core product strength.

- Engagement Milestones & Graduation: Guide engagements through structured milestones,from kickoff to graduation,enabling self-sustaining customer ownership within standard 6-month deployment cycles.

**Requirements**

- Experience: 7+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.

- Technical Execution: Hands-on coding and debugging skills (e.g., Python, Java, or similar) with solid understanding of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.

- Customer Interaction: Proven experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments, live data troubleshooting, and custom workflow integration.

- Travel: Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.

**Benefits**

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- REST APIs
- object-oriented design
- system architecture
- integration patterns

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