# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**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 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 work spans configuration, customisation, and full-stack deployment , shipping solutions customers depend on.

**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'll 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.

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

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

- You understand data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns deeply enough to design them.

- 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 the group chat that's building something, not just talking about it.

- You are excited to travel ~25% of the time, working directly alongside customers.

**Benefits**

- Unleash Your Potential: Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best.

- AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Java
- Apex
- LLMs
- prompt engineering
- data modeling
- APIs
- integration patterns

### Nice to have
- Salesforce platform experience or certifications
- familiarity with agent frameworks
- hands-on with cloud data platforms
- experience across specialist AI delivery areas

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