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, 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.
- 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.
You're Our Forward Deployed Engineer If…
- You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 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 prior customer-facing technical delivery experience.
- Proven experience managing and delivering customer-facing projects within Public Sector, Higher Education, or Nonprofit environments.
- You're fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
- You've been hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering.
Nice-to-Haves
- Salesforce platform experience or certifications.
- Familiarity with agent frameworks and orchestration patterns.
- Hands-on with cloud data platforms.
- Experience across specialist AI delivery areas.
Benefits
- Time off programs
- Medical, dental, vision
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program