Machine Learning Engineer, Workday
CA$122.4-183.6k
For Colorado, the pay range for this job is $147,200 - $220,800 USD
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Enterprise management cloud platform
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Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
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CA$122.4-183.6k
For Colorado, the pay range for this job is $147,200 - $220,800 USD
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- In addition to contributing to feature and service development, you must have an approach of continuous improvement, passion for quality, scale, and security
- You must be curious and prepared to question or challenge choices and practices where they don't make sense to you or could be improved
- You also should have a product approach and strong intuition around how ML can drive a better customer experience
- Lastly, a strong sense of ownership and teamwork are essential to succeed in this role
- Bachelor’s (Master’s or PhD preferred) degree in engineering, computer science, physics, math or equivalent
- 3+ years of professional experience in building information retrieval systems and/or graph-based recommendation systems
- 3+ years of hands-on professional experience in developing text-based or graph-based machine learning models for production, including data processing, model fine-tuning, model deployment and model evaluation
- 2+ years of professional experience in building services to host machine learning models in production at scale
- 2+ years of professional experience working with large language models (LLMs), text generation models, and/or graph neural network models for real-world use cases
- 2+ years of professional experience in machine learning and deep learning frameworks & toolkits such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Sklearn
- 2+ years of professional experience with data engineering and data wrangling using e.g. Pandas and PySpark and other industry tools used to build scalable machine learning systems, such as Kubernetes and Docker
- 2+ years of professional experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Deep understanding of statistical analysis, unsupervised and supervised machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing for information retrieval and/or recommendation system use cases
- Exposure to advanced techniques such as reinforcement learning and graph neural networks
- Standout colleague, strong communication skills, with experience working across functions and teams. Ability to teach, mentor and lead through influence
- Bonus points for relevant PhD and/or machine learning related research publications
What the job involves
- We're working on making machine learning core to Workday's products by building features and capabilities that can be scaled out to hundreds of use cases within Workday
- We are developing ML-powered Information Retrieval, Recommendation and Agentic services and platforms to modernize and simplify user interactions with Workday
- As a machine learning engineer, you will help develop tailored user experiences using advanced Agentic AI, LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, personalization, and predictive analysis
- You will collaborate with other engineers to deliver ML solutions across Workday’s product ecosystem and utilize current software and data engineering stacks to enable training, deployment, and lifecycle management of a variety of ML models; supervised and unsupervised, and agentic AI powered by LLMs
- Additionally, you will develop and deploy new APIs/microservices using docker/kubernetes at scale and leverage Workday’s vast computing resources on rich datasets to deliver transformative value to our customers
- Own exploration, design and execution of advanced ML models, algorithms and frameworks that deliver value to our users
- Apply machine learning techniques including LLMs, knowledge graphs, deep learning including generative models, natural language understanding, topic modeling, GNNs and named entity recognition to analyze large sets of HR and Finance-related text data, and design and launch pioneering cloud based machine learning architectures
- Own the performance, scalability, metric based deployed evaluation, and ongoing data driven enhancements of your products
- Keep abreast of the latest advancements in NLP research, techniques, and tools and apply this knowledge onto ML Features
Application process
- End Date: July 13, 2025
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.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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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 benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan 🇺🇸
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office) 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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