Principal Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
UiPath · Bellevue, WA · Review
About this role
UiPath is hiring a principal-level Field Engineer in the software engineering function based in Bellevue, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, LLMs, Prompt Engineering.
- Role
- Field Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
- Department
- Review
- Posted
- Apr 22, 2026
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Job description
from UiPath careersThe people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. 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.
Could that be you?
Role Overview
As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer Manager, you will lead and scale a team of senior technical experts who define technical strategy across major customer engagements and deliver lighthouse implementations with strategic customers. You'll build and develop a high-performing FDE organization, establish standards for how your teams operate, influence product direction through aggregated field insights, and serve as both a people leader and executive technical advisor to customers and internal stakeholders. This role uniquely combines engineering leadership with deep technical fluency in AI and automation, strategic customer engagement, and organizational scaling.
Unlike traditional engineering managers who oversee product development teams, Principal FDE Managers lead engineers embedded in customer environments, balancing team development, delivery excellence, and customer outcomes simultaneously. You'll shape how your team delivers agentic automation solutions while owning hiring, performance, career development, and the operational health of a team responsible for UiPath's most strategic customer engagements.