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Machine Learning Engineer

Workday INC · 🇺🇸 USA, CA, Pleasanton

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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
  • What Workday INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Principal, Machine Learning Engineer” (Software Developers) in OR: $128k–$205k, median $129k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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255 H-1B filings certified since Oct 2025

The US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).

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About the role

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Do you want to build AI-powered software that impacts millions of people every day? The AI Foundations team, part of Workday’s AI Platform organization, tackles challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning, agentic reasoning, and enterprise-scale systems. Our work delivers critical AI platform capabilities and differentiated, deep-value agent applications. About the Role As a Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will develop tailored user experiences using advanced Agentic AI, LLMs and RAG. You will 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; supervised and unsupervised. Additionally, you will develop and deploy new APIs/services using Docker/Kubernetes at scale and leverage Workday’s vast computing resources on rich datasets to deliver transformative value to our customers. Sound like your kind of challenge? About You You are a strong technical leader with deep Python expertise and solid machine learning engineering skills, capable of writing beautiful, well-designed code while delivering solutions efficiently. Specifically, you will: • Own exploration, design and implementation of features for our sophisticated ML platforms, pipelines and services.  • 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 • Stay up to date with advancements in AI, LLMs, RAG, autonomous agents and orchestration frameworks to drive innovation Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s (Master’s or PhD preferred) degree in engineering, data/computer science, physics, math or equivalent • 3+ yrs full-time professional experience as a member of a data science, machine learning engineering, or other relevant software development team building machine learning products from the ground up at scale. This includes taking products through applied research, design, implementation, evaluation, and production. • 3+ years of full-time hands-on professional experience in developing ETL pipelines and inference services that use large language models (LLMs) and text generation models in production. This includes the full machine learning life cycle - data processing, model fine-tuning, model deployment and model evaluation • 3+ years of full-t

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Source: Employer career site (Workday) First seen: 2026-10-01 Last confirmed: 2026-10-02 How our data works → Report this job

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