# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,500 - $260,100 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers , experienced Technical Builders who design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly inside enterprise customer environments.

You'll work as part of a delivery team, partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist to co-build solutions that go live in production environments from day one. Engagements range from a single large strategic customer to multiple accounts simultaneously.

**The Builder Experience**

- AI-Powered Development: Ship real customer solutions, supported by best-in-class AI tools , Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes , embedded into your day-to-day workflow.

- Collaborative Delivery: You'll work alongside Senior Forward Deployed Engineers and a Deployment Strategist. You'll own real components, benefit from structured mentorship, and have a clear path to leading complex deliveries yourself.

- Frontier Access: Our agentic AI platform is evolving in real time. You'll work on capabilities most engineers won't touch for months , spanning Agentforce, data, platform, Slack and headless architectures.

- Continuous Innovation: You'll be expected to stay at the forefront, experimenting with emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks, and sharing what you learn with your team and customers.

**What You'll Actually Be Building**

- Develop AI agents and experiences that take real actions for real organizations.

- Design agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems.

- Design secure authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth, SSO, enterprise identity providers, and API gateways.

- Own technical components end-to-end: from architecture choice to deployed, validated, and observable in production.

- Build and integrate data pipelines on Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms.

- Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes.

**You're Our Forward Deployed Engineer If…**

- You have 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with at least one production system you'd be proud to walk us through.

- You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.

- You have prior customer-facing technical delivery experience.

- You're fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.

- You bring deep hands-on expertise with Slack platform architecture.

- You've been hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering.

**Benefits**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Java
- Apex
- Slack platform architecture
- LLMs
- prompt engineering

### Nice to have
- Salesforce platform experience
- Slack Certified Developer
- agent frameworks
- cloud data platforms

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