Forward Deployed Engineer

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

You will 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 will work alongside Senior Forward Deployed Engineers and a Deployment Strategist. You will 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 will work on capabilities most engineers won't touch for months , spanning Agentforce, data, platform, and headless architectures.
• Continuous Innovation: You will 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 Will Actually Be Building

• Develop AI agents and experiences that take real actions for real organisations.
• Design agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems.
• 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.
• Contribute to proofs-of-concept and MVPs that move from sketch to deployable in days.
• Co-build alongside customers and partners, sharing best practices and enablement as you go.
• Surface platform gaps, edge cases, and field insights to senior Engineers and the product team.

You Are Our Forward Deployed Engineer If…

• You are fluent in German and English.
• You have 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with at least one production system.
• You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• You have prior customer-facing technical delivery experience.
• You are fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
• You have hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering.
• You understand data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns.
• You can hold your own in a room with sales teams and customer architects.
• You ship quality code and evaluate AI outputs with engineering rigor.
• You actively tinker with the evolving AI/data landscape.
• You thrive in a group chat that's building something.
• You are excited to travel ~25% of the time, working directly alongside customers.