# Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Developer Platform at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $206K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Principal-Forward-Deployed-Engineer_JR-0111467-1?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-principal-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-developer-platform/

## About the role

As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team, you’ll bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy, taking on the most complex, ambiguous customer builds where no existing playbook applies. You’ll partner with enterprise customers, often at the executive level, to architect, build, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic apps inside live customer environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Technical Execution: Hands-on coding and debugging skills (for example, Python, Java, or similar), with deep knowledge of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns
- Travel: Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed
- Product Mindset: Skilled at abstracting durable, generalizable product requirements from one-off customer issues, and at using field insight to influence what gets built next
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written technical communication skills, skilled at translating complex technical challenges for non-technical leadership
- Ambiguity & Agility: Thrives in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements across Product, Engineering, Services, and Sales teams
- Collaborative Leadership: A highly collaborative, low-ego teammate who mentors other engineers and helps multi-disciplinary account and delivery pods work well together


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-principal-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-developer-platform/