Description
Salesforce is hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers , the Technical Builders, responsible for deciding that leads who design, build, and deploy the most complex agentic AI solutions directly inside enterprise customer environments.
You'll lead technical delivery on your team, mentor the next wave of engineers, and set the engineering standards that define how agentic AI gets deployed at scale. Partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist (Strategic Builder - a customer-facing advisor who shapes AI strategy and drives adoption), you'll own outcomes end-to-end, from architecture decision to production.
The Senior Builder Experience
- Technical Ownership: Partner with a Deployment Strategist to own customer outcomes end-to-end. You're the senior technical authority in the room, ensuring deliverables meet the highest engineering standards.
- AI-Supported Engineering: Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes are embedded in your daily workflow.
- Roadmap Influence: Your field experience routes directly to Product and Engineering.
- Continuous Innovation: You're expected to stay at the forefront , piloting emerging AI tools, experimenting with new models and frameworks.
What You'll Actually Be Building
- Own end-to-end build and deployment of agentic AI solutions for Salesforce's most strategic customers , from architecture decisions through production handoff.
- Design and ship agentic systems on the Agentforce platform.
- Own the data lifecycle: model design, processing pipelines, and data readiness for AI applications.
- Resolve the technical blockers that other engineers can't.
- Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting.
- Develop proofs-of-concept and MVPs quickly.
- Codify what you learn.
- Mentor other Engineers through code reviews, pair sessions, and shared work.
You're Our Senior Forward Deployed Engineer If…
- You have 6+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience.
- You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- You're an expert in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
- You've integrated LLMs into production.
- You have deep experience in data modeling, processing, and analytics.
- You bring deep Salesforce platform expertise.
- You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done mindset.
- You've mentored technical talent and created reusable assets.
- You communicate clearly and credibly with engineering peers, customer architects, and executive stakeholders.
Nice-to-Haves
- Salesforce certifications.
- Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD practices.
- Experience architecting multi-cloud, multi-system enterprise AI solutions.
- Track record of influencing enterprise software product roadmaps.
- Open-source contributions.