# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $88,970 - $287,910 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.

Responsibilities:

- 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

- 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

- Partner with the Deployment Strategist in your pod to translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions that actually ship

Requirements:

- 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience

- Production system experience

- Degree in Computer Science or a related field

- Prior customer-facing technical delivery experience

- Fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex

- Hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering

- Understanding of data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns

- Ability to hold your own in a room with sales teams and customer architects

- Willingness to travel ~25% of the time

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

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Salesforce platform experience
- agent frameworks
- orchestration patterns
- cloud data platforms
- specialist AI delivery areas

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