Senior Machine Learning Engineer (AI Platform)

Join Workday as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Core team. You will develop tailored user experiences using advanced AI technologies, collaborate with other engineers to deliver ML solutions, and leverage Workday's vast computing resources. You will also be responsible for the exploration, design, and implementation of features for our ML platforms, pipelines, and services. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in machine learning, cloud computing, and software engineering.

• Collaborate with other engineers to deliver ML solutions across Workday’s product ecosystem and use current software and data engineering stacks to enable training, deployment, and lifecycle management of a variety of ML models.
• Own exploration, design and implementation of features for our sophisticated ML platforms, pipelines and services, and be responsible for evaluation, scalability and observability of these features.
• Apply machine learning techniques including LLMs and natural language understanding to analyze large sets of HR and Finance-related text data, and design and launch pioneering cloud-based machine learning architectures.

• You are a strong technical leader with deep Python expertise and solid software engineering skills, capable of writing beautiful, well-designed code while delivering solutions efficiently
• 6+ yrs experience as a member of a data science, machine learning engineering, or other relevant software development team building applied machine learning products at scale, including taking products through applied research, design, implementation, production, and production-based evaluation
• Bachelor’s (Master’s or PhD preferred) degree in engineering, data/computer science, physics, math or equivalent
• 5+ years of professional experience with Python and supporting numeric libraries, with experience in shipping production code and models
• 5+ years of professional experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience in building information retrieval systems and/or graph-based recommendation systems
• 3+ years of hands-on professional experience in developing large language models (LLMs), text generation models, or graph-based machine learning models for production, including data processing, model fine-tuning, model deployment and model evaluation
• 3+ years of experience building services to host machine learning models in production at scale
• 3+ 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
• 3+ years of experience in machine learning and deep learning frameworks & toolkits such as PySpark, Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Sklearn
• Professional experience in independently solving ambiguous, open-ended problems and technically leading teams
• Deep understanding of statistical analysis, unsupervised and supervised machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing for information retrieval and/or recommendation system use cases