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[/company/workday-inc](/company/workday-inc)[Workday, Inc.](/company/workday-inc)
# Machine Learning Engineer - Payroll at Workday, Inc.

Compensation · Listed in posting

$160,000 – $240,000/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Pleasanton, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 9, 2026

## Description

Workday is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, evaluate, and deploy AI and machine learning solutions for enterprise payroll products. The role involves preparing large-scale HR and payroll datasets, building models and prompts, applying deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, and AI agent technologies, and collaborating with product managers, software engineers, and data scientists to bring applied machine learning capabilities to production. The primary location is Pleasanton, California, with additional United States locations, and the role offers a hybrid arrangement requiring at least 50% office or field time each quarter.

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