Machine Learning Engineer, Workday
Document Intelligence
$136.2-240k
Salary varies depending on location
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Office located in Pleasanton, CA or Santa Clara, CA
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$136.2-240k
Salary varies depending on location
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA or Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Deep Technical ML Capability: 3+ years of experience researching, developing and deploying production-grade ML systems, including expertise in deep learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, and recommender systems using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Generative AI & Agentic Systems: Proven track record of building and evaluating NLP and LLM-powered products, including expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph), and long-context LLM applications (e.g., Text-to-SQL)
- Engineering Excellence: 2+ years of Python experience with a focus on modular library design, asynchronous patterns, and scalable system architecture (state management/error handling) for non-deterministic AI outputs
- Academic Foundation: Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in a quantitative field or a strong portfolio of peer-reviewed research publications
- Optimization & Advanced Techniques: Proficiency in techniques like DSPy, Reinforcement Learning, imitation learning, graph neural networks, multi-modal models, and large-scale data processing (PySpark, SQL)
- Experimental Rigor: A "test-everything" mindset with experience in A/B testing, Knowledge Graphs, and "Golden Dataset" curation for model benchmarking
- Data Pipelines: Proficiency in large-scale data processing (PySpark, SQL)
- Production MLOps: Hands-on experience with the full ML lifecycle, including model fine-tuning (PEFT), evaluation frameworks (e.g., DeepEval/RAGAS), and cloud-native deployment (Docker/K8s, AWS/GCP)
- Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and solve ambiguous problems with high autonomy
What the job involves
- This is a very exciting opening in the AI Platform team in our Document Intelligence team. We believe if you do what you love, you’ll love what you do
- There’s a lot to love at Workday. We are part of a global, high-growth technology company and our team has the opportunity to develop the next generation of Workday’s groundbreaking collaborative products supporting a customer base of more than 31 million strong. Over 65% of the Fortune 500 are Workday customers
- The Document Intelligence team builds AI/ML-powered solutions to extract actionable insights from unstructured documents
- We design scalable document processing pipelines that can ingest and interpret large volumes of data with minimal manual intervention. Our work includes advanced document parsing using NLP, computer vision, and large language models (LLMs), along with in-house model training for entity resolution
- We integrate seamlessly with business workflows for areas like financials, spend management, and more. By continuously evolving our models to handle new document types and edge cases, we help automate and accelerate critical business processes across the organization
- Workday’s AI Platform organization is bringing “AI first” products to life at every step of the Workday product offering. We’re looking for highly creative, results-focused, and deeply skilled Machine Learning Engineers/scientists to work with us on a range of these challenges
- We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join the ML - Document Intelligence team to drive the design and development of our core Document Intelligence Platform as a Service
- In this role, you will work on building and optimizing critical features like generic document entity extraction, entity resolution, and document classification, leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML techniques
- Support the design and implementation of LLM-based technologies for document parsing, entity extraction, and classification tasks
- Apply traditional ML and deep learning techniques to continuously enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of our document intelligence models
- Build scalable ML pipelines and services for data preprocessing, feature engineering, training, and inference, enabling high-volume document processing workflows
- Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on diverse document datasets to uncover valuable insights, optimize feature engineering, and inform model development
- Collaborate with software engineers, Workday app developers, product managers, and other ML teams
- Take ownership for finding creative solutions that move projects forward
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices in software engineering, including automation, observability, and scalability
- Conduct code reviews, participate in design discussions, and engage in collaborative team activities like hackathons and knowledge-sharing sessions
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, Workday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & CEO)Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.
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