Life at UiPath

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were 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 careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you

Role Overview

As a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering you will lead a senior team responsible for UiPaths most strategic customer engagements and help define how the Forward Deployed Engineering function scales across the company. You will operate beyond the scope of individual delivery oversight shaping the technical organizational and customer operating model for complex AI and automation programs. This role requires a combination of organizational leadership deep technical fluency executive customer engagement and cross-functional influence.

You will be accountable not only for the success of the engagements your team leads but also for the broader systems that make those engagements successful including talent quality portfolio health delivery standards executive stakeholder alignment reusable technical patterns and the translation of field insight into product and company action. You will serve as both a people leader and a senior technical and business leader helping UiPath deliver transformative outcomes for strategic customers while strengthening the long-term capabilities of the FDE organization.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Development

Recruit hire and retain top-tier Forward Deployed Engineering talent building a team with the technical depth and customer acumen required for strategic engagements. Develop Principal and Sr. Principal FDEs through coaching career planning and targeted stretch opportunities that prepare them for technical and leadership progression. Set clear performance expectations deliver candid feedback and manage performance issues with fairness and rigor. Foster a team culture that values technical excellence customer empathy rapid learning and collaborative problem-solving. Create development paths that accommodate both individual contributors and management tracks ensuring the team retains its strongest technical talent.

AI Engineering & Platform Mastery

Define the technical and operational strategy for Forward Deployed Engineering across UiPaths most strategic customer programs shaping how the organization delivers enterprise AI and agentic automation at scale. Synthesize field signals across engagements into roadmap platform and investment priorities and establish the reference architectures governance models and delivery standards that define how FDE teams build reusable enterprise-ready AI solutions. Lead organizational standards for agent engineering prompt operations evaluation frameworks LLM governance and production deployment practices while determining where the function should invest in emerging technologies and ecosystem capabilities. Set the bar for performance optimization cost discipline security posture and reliability across customer implementations ensuring the FDE organization delivers consistent high-quality outcomes in production.

Technical Excellence Innovation & Delivery

Define the technical and organizational standards that shape how Forward Deployed Engineering delivers AI and agentic automation across UiPaths most strategic engagements. Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve scalability consistency and execution quality across teams and translate customer insight field patterns and market signals into technical direction co-innovation priorities and product influence. Establish durable mechanisms to spread best practices and institutionalize learning across the function while representing UiPaths forward-deployed engineering approach to senior customers industry audiences and internal leadership.

Customer & Business Impact

Define the strategic direction for customer and business impact across the FDE organization ensuring the most important engagements advance UiPaths long-term growth differentiation and market leadership. Sponsor transformative lighthouse partnerships that showcase category-defining agentic outcomes and create reusable models for global field execution. Shape company strategy by converting broad customer signals and market patterns into product platform and investment priorities. Build and deepen executive relationships with senior customer stakeholders positioning UiPath as a strategic partner in enterprise AI and automation transformation. Institutionalize how business value is measured communicated and amplified across the customer lifecycle.

Collaboration Influence & Leadership

Elevate collaboration and leadership across the FDE organization aligning teams functions and regions around the highest-impact customer and business priorities. Create strong operating partnerships with Product Engineering Sales and Customer Success so that field perspective consistently shapes company decisions and execution. Build leadership depth by developing senior technical leaders into broader organizational influencers. Define and reinforce the standards rhythms and decision frameworks that create consistency across the FDE organization.

Required Qualifications

12 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience with a strong record of building and scaling customer-facing engineering functions in enterprise software

Deep expertise in LLM systems and AI application architecture including prompt engineering evaluation frameworks and large-scale deployment of agentic workflows

Strong technical fluency in Python and/or TypeScript with the ability to guide architecture and execution for production-grade AI systems

Proven track record of setting organizational technical strategy and leading complex cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable customer and business impact

Strong leadership in building mentoring and scaling high-performing technical teams and leaders

Track record of driving organizational excellence through technical standards delivery frameworks and repeatable best practices across teams

Willingness to travel to customer sites (up to 3040%) and engage directly with strategic customers and partners

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with enterprise automation platforms.

Background in machine learning including experience with custom ML models document understanding or enterprise AI platform deployments

Familiarity with multiple LLM providers such as OpenAI Anthropic Google Gemini and others with a strong understanding of strategic model tradeoffs and enterprise adoption considerations

Experience with orchestration platforms workflow engines and large-scale integration architectures

Track record of shaping technical strategy for customer implementations and scaling repeatable delivery patterns across teams or regions

Experience building cross-functional partnerships across product engineering sales and customer success to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

Prior experience overseeing customer use case implementations in enterprise software at scale

What Makes This Role Special

Strategic Impact: Define technical strategy for UiPaths most important customer engagements and influence the product roadmap through direct customer insights

Cutting-Edge Technology: Work at the forefront of AI and agentic automation implementing solutions that push the boundaries of whats possible with LLMs and enterprise automation

Organizational Leadership: Establish standards and best practices that shape how the entire FDE organization delivers customer solutions

Customer Partnership: Build executive relationships with strategic customers and serve as their trusted advisor on AI and automation strategy

Measurable Business Outcomes: See the direct impact of your work through deployed automations that save millions of dollars and transform how enterprises operate

Innovation at Scale: Co-create technical capabilities with Product and Engineering that unlock new use cases for customers across industries

Thought Leadership: Represent UiPath at industry conferences and establish yourself as a recognized expert in AI-driven enterprise automation

Our Core Priorities

At UiPath were guided by key business priorities that shape how Principal FDE Managers work:

Customer Centric: Youll be embedded directly with customers making their success the foundation of your daily work

Breaking Silos: Operate at the intersection of customer organizations and UiPath teams facilitating collaboration across all stakeholders

Improving Agility: Prototype rapidly iterate based on real-world feedback and embrace the principle that shipping is how we learn

Dealing with Ambiguity: Navigate unclear requirements non-deterministic AI systems and unpredictable field conditions with confidence

Building Focus: Prioritize high-impact use cases that deliver measurable business value and ensure solutions achieve depth and reliability

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Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid office-based and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

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