# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,000 USD - $222,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Forward-Deployed-Engineer--FDE-_JR-0111511?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We’re Workday, a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge hands-on software development with high-impact customer technical strategy.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will partner with enterprise customers to architect, deploy, debug, and optimize Workday’s AI agents and developer platform solutions within live customer environments.

**Responsibilities:**

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

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

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

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

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

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

**Requirements:**

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

- 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.

- Proven 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 as needed.

**Nice to Have:**

- Applied experience with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems , e.g., prompt/context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent orchestration frameworks , and a working understanding of how model behavior shows up as product and customer-facing issues in the field.

**What We Offer:**

- Annualized base salary ranges: $148,000 USD - $222,000 USD for the primary location, and $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD for additional US locations.

- Comprehensive benefits, including bonus plan, annual refresh stock grants, and flexible work arrangements.

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## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- LLM-powered AI systems
- prompt/context engineering
- retrieval-augmented generation
- evaluations
- agent orchestration frameworks

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