Principal Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

LIFE AT UIPATH The 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. 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 Senior and 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 contributor and management tracks, ensuring the team retains its strongest technical talent. AI Engineering & Platform Mastery Set the technical direction for the team across major customer engagements, ensuring Senior and Principal FDEs apply strong judgment in AI system design, multi-agent orchestration, and enterprise deployment. Translate customer and field learnings into actionable input for Product and Engineering, while driving adoption of reference architectures, reusable delivery patterns, and engineering standards across the team. Establish consistent practices for agent engineering, prompt management, LLM evaluation, and production operations, and guide the team in balancing experimentation with standardization as new technologies emerge. Ensure solutions delivered by the team meet strong standards for performance, cost efficiency, security, and operational sustainability across customer environments. Technical Excellence, Innovation & Delivery Set and uphold the technical standards by which the team delivers AI systems, agentic workflows, and production-ready customer solutions. Guide lighthouse engagements through strong technical oversight and escalation support, while driving cross-functional improvements that increase delivery quality, repeatability, and scale. Convert patterns emerging across customer work into reusable practices, stronger operating mechanisms, and informed product feedback. Ensure field learnings are captured and shared in ways that strengthen the broader FDE organization and elevate the team’s technical capabilities. Customer & Business Impact Set customer technology strategy across a portfolio of strategic engagements, al