# Senior 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: Senior
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $176K to $264K 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/Senior-Forward-Deployed-Engineer_JR-0111466?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-developer-platform/

## About the role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer on the Developer Platform FDE team, you’ll bridge hands-on agent engineering with high-impact customer technical strategy. You’ll partner with enterprise customers 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

- Experience: 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development
- Agent Engineering: Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems, such as tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent orchestration
- Technical Execution: Hands-on coding and debugging skills (for example, Python, Java, or similar), with a 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
- Product Mindset: Ability to abstract generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues


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