UKG
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Seattle,WA,United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$214kDetected 8 days ago
Code ReviewAWSAzureCloud PlatformsRESTData EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationERPLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- You are close to the customer and close to the code.
- We are looking for strong engineers who love learning unfamiliar domains, designing novel solutions, and pushing through ambiguity until something works in the real world.
Responsibilities
- Own Technical Discovery and Invention Partner directly with customer stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, data, systems, constraints, and opportunities for innovation.
- Translate ambiguous customer needs into hypotheses, prototypes, technical designs, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.
- Build and Ship Production Solutions Design and build production-grade APIs, integrations, workflow automations, data pipelines, internal tools, and customer-facing technical solutions.
- Integrate UKG with HCM, Payroll, Workforce Management, ERP, IAM, data, and related systems using secure, auditable designs.
- Own technical delivery through discovery, design, build, testing, go-live, and early operational handoff.
- Lead the Engineering Pod Set technical direction for an FDE engagement or major solution area and keep engineering work focused on the customer outcome.
- Collaborate closely with the engagement PM, customer teams, Product, Engineering, Support, and Security to surface risks, dependencies, and decisions early.
Nice to have
- You raise the quality of the team through clarity, mentorship, practical standards, and calm execution.
- What You Will Bring Typically 7+ years of experience building software, developer platforms, cloud applications, AI-enabled products, technical solutions, or production integrations.
- Experience designing and deploying production systems or customer-facing technical solutions in ambiguous environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain tradeoffs clearly to technical teams, executives, and customer stakeholders.
- Familiarity with modern cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI-enabled tools, LLMs, copilots, workflow automation, or agentic patterns.
- Sound judgment around security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and responsible use of AI.
- Preferred, Not Required Enterprise software experience is a differentiator, not a gatekeeper.
Skills
- Enterprise HCM, Payroll, or Workforce Management experience is helpful, but it is not the gatekeeper.
- Ask sharp questions that reveal the real problem, not just the requested feature or implementation path.
- Explore unfamiliar technologies, customer domains, and AI capabilities with curiosity, speed, and sound engineering judgment.
- Identify when a field-built solution should become a reusable platform capability or reference pattern.
Compensation
- The pay range for this position is $129,500 to $214,015.
Benefits
- In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.
- Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.
Company info
- learning unfamiliar domains, finding the real problem, building the first working version, and turning what works into reusable capabilities for the broader platform.
- We are inspired by the best forward-deployed and outcome-delivery organizations in enterprise technology.
- It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.
- Rapidly prototype ideas, test assumptions with customers, and mature the best ideas into maintainable production systems.
Equal opportunity
- Employer UKG is an equal opportunity employer.
- We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
- View The EEO Know Your Rights poster UKG participates in E-Verify.
- View the E-Verify posters here.
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