engineering
Posted May 21Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
at UiPath
Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Lead lighthouse implementations with strategic customers, demonstrating new capabilities and delivery approaches
- Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams to improve scalability, quality, and delivery consistency
- Generate new technical and product ideas through co-innovation, synthesizing customer insights, field patterns, and industry trends
- Represent UiPath's technical practices and agent engineering expertise at conferences, customer briefings, and industry forums
- Establish mechanisms for capturing and disseminating field learnings that accelerate the FDE organization CUSTOMER & BUSINESS IMPACT
- Lead lighthouse implementations with strategic customers, demonstrating new agentic capabilities and establishing replicable patterns for the FDE organization
- Build executive-level relationships with strategic customers, advising on AI and automation strategy
- Establish frameworks for quantifying and communicating business impact across customer engagements
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across regions and technical domains, coordinating with strategic customers on lighthouse implementations
- Mentor Senior FDEs and emerging technical leaders in architectural thinking and customer engagement
- Facilitate discussions on technical standards and strategies across FDE teams, ensuring organizational alignment
- Proven track record of defining technical strategy and delivering complex, multi-system integrations that drive measurable business outcomes
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and establishing technical standards across teams
- Track record of contributing to open source projects or publishing technical content
Requirements
- LIFE AT UIPATH The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works.
- Our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work at the cutting edge of AI and automation, embedded directly with customers to deliver transformative solutions that drive measurable business impact.
- This role uniquely combines deep technical expertise in AI and automation with strategic customer engagement and organizational leadership.
- RESPONSIBILITIES AI Engineering & Platform Mastery - Define technical strategy for AI system design, multi-agent orchestration, and enterprise deployment across major customer engagements, including lighthouse implementations with strategic customers - Partner with UiPath Product and Engineering teams to co-innovate and shape the - roadmap for agentic automation based on field insights and customer needs - Develop reference architectures for scalable, reusable AI deployments that become standards across FDE
- Define and enforce best practices for AI system delivery, agent reliability, and production operations across FDE teams
- experience with demonstrated expertise in enterprise software delivery and customer-facing technical roles
- Deep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, evaluation techniques,and production deployment of agentic workflows
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript with
- experience building production-grade AI applications
- Experience leading lighthouse implementations or strategic technical initiatives with enterprise customers
- Demonstrated ability to influence product direction through field insights and co-innovation with product teams
- experience presenting at conferences or industry forums
- Experience with enterprise automation platforms (UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, or similar)
- Background in machine learning, including
- experience with custom ML models, document understanding, or AI Center deployments
- Familiarity with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, etc.) and understanding of model tradeoffs
- Experience with orchestration platforms, workflow engines, and integration architectures
- experience in enterprise software WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE SPECIAL
- Cutting-Edge Technology: Work at the forefront of AI and agentic automation, implementing solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible with LLMs and enterprise automation
- Customer Partnership: Build executive relationships with strategic customers and serve as their trusted advisor on AI and automation strategy
- Thought Leadership: Represent UiPath at industry conferences and establish yourself as a recognized expert in AI-driven enterprise automation OUR CORE PRIORITIES At UiPath, we're guided by key business priorities that shape how Principal FDEs work:
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Navigate unclear requirements, non-deterministic AI systems, and unpredictable field conditions with confidence BuildingFocus: Prioritize high-impact use cases that deliver measurable business value and ensure solutions achieve depth and reliability #LI-MH1 Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please.
Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering
Additional details
- We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.
- To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine.
- People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company.
- And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose.
- ROLE OVERVIEW As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will define technical strategy across major customer engagements and lead lighthouse implementations with strategic customers.
- You'll establish standards for FDE teams, influence product direction through field insights and co-innovation, and serve as a trusted technical advisor to both customers and internal stakeholders.
- Unlike traditional software engineers who build products for many customers, Principal FDEs enable transformative capabilities for strategic customers while shaping how the entire FDE organization delivers agentic automation solutions.
- You'll work directly in customer environments while simultaneously establishing technical standards and best practices that scale across the organization. KEY
- Define customer technology strategy across major engagements, ensuring alignment with business transformation objectives and measurable outcomes
- Influence UiPath product direction through co-innovation, translating aggregated field insights into roadmap recommendations