Machine Learning Engineer

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Danu is part of Workday’s AI Centre of Excellence in Dublin, operating within the AI Platform organization to support a customer base of 60 million users. Danu’s charge is AI privacy — researching and translating sophisticated challenges in human-AI partnership, ML model performance, Explainable AI (XAI), and Responsible AI into production capabilities, with a specific focus on anonymization. Our de-identification engine, ogham — named for Ireland's earliest alphabet — already detects PII at industry-leading recall and efficiency at enterprise scale. We are now extending our privacy engineering capabilities to build the next chapter: a dedicated anonymization capability that will allow Workday and its customers to set new industry-leading privacy standards. If you want to help define how a global AI company earns the right to use sensitive data — responsibly, and at scale — we’d like to meet you.

As a Machine Learning Engineer on Danu, you will build and tune the machine learning models and data pipelines behind ogham, our de-identification engine, detecting and redacting sensitive data across Workday’s AI systems. You will help grow de-identification into a broader anonymization capability, working at scale in close partnership with agent-platform teams across Workday. Your First Six Months You will focus on building out our anonymization capability — implementing and evaluating differential privacy and group anonymization techniques such as k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness against real research use cases, and establishing the evaluation approach that the broader platform capability will be built on.

Anonymization & Privacy Engineering: Apply and evaluate privacy techniques across real enterprise use cases, measuring the privacy-utility trade-off and turning findings into actionable recommendations for data governance. Model Optimization & Fine-Tuning: Build, fine-tune, and continuously improve de-identification and anonymization models — including Named-Entity Recognition (NER) and pattern-matching layers — balancing accuracy, latency, and compute efficiency. Pipeline Ownership & Operations: Own the full lifecycle of data exploration, transformation, feature and prompt engineering, and model design across high-throughput Spark, EMR, and SageMaker batch pipelines, and support these pipelines in production, diagnosing issues such as memory errors and capacity constraints. Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable, scalable ML systems, and collaborate alongside legal and compliance stakeholders to implement data governance frameworks. Technical Communication : Act as a point of contact