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Technical depth required. Architectural judgment expected. 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. Youâll 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), youâll own outcomes end-to-end, from architecture decision to production. Your passion for well-crafted software that solves real problems will be supported by best-in-class AI tools and a team of talented builders around you., * Technical Ownership: Partner with a Deployment Strategist to own customer outcomes end-to-end. Youâre the senior technical authority in the room, ensuring deliverables meet the highest engineering standards, whether it was generated by an AI tool by a colleague or written by you directly.
- AI-Supported Engineering: Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes are embedded in your daily workflow. The conventions and patterns you develop tend to propagate through the team because other Builders look to your work as reference.
- Roadmap Influence: Your field experience routes directly to Product and Engineering. The gaps you hit and the edge cases you encounter in real life customer environments become the features they ship. Senior Forward Deployed Engineers are the most credible voice in agentic AIproduct evolution.
- Continuous Innovation: Youâre expected to stay at the forefront - piloting emerging AI tools, experimenting with new models and frameworks, and sharing what you learn with your team and customers.
What Youâll Actually Be Building
- Own end-to-end build and deployment of agentic AI solutions for Salesforceâs most strategic customers - from architecture decisions through production handoff.
- Design and ship agentic systems on the Agentforce platform: agent logic, tool calls, multi-agent orchestration, deterministic guardrails, and the integration patterns that hold up in enterprise environments. Your reference implementations become the basis for how other Builders approach similar problems.
- Own the data lifecycle: model design, processing pipelines, and data readiness for AI applications across Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer-specific platforms.
- Resolve the technical blockers that other engineers canât - data integration failures, model deployment issues, orchestration breakdowns, performance regressions. These problems are routed to you because of your track record of solving them.
- Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes across engagements.
- Develop proofs-of-concept and MVPs quickly, with the judgment to know which decisions can be deferred and which need to be right the first time.
- Codify what you learn. The patterns, reusable assets, and internal frameworks that come out of your real customer work become the playbooks the rest of the org draws from.
- Mentor other Engineers through code reviews, pair sessions, and shared work. Most of your influence on developing engineers happens inside the same codebases youâre building in.
- Provide technical depth on at-risk or strategically critical deployments when senior engineering judgment is needed.
- Surface field insights directly to Product and Engineering. The gaps and edge cases you encounter in real customer environments are some of the most valuable inputs to the Agentforce roadmap.
- Partner with the Deployment Strategist on your team to translate complex customer business challenges into agentic solutions that actually ship.
Requirements
- You have 6+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with proven end-to-end ownership of scalable production systems in enterprise AI, cloud, or SaaS environments.
- You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Youâre an expert in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex, and conversant in the others.
- Youâve integrated LLMs into production, used frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex, and applied prompt engineering and responsible AI practices in real customer contexts.
- You have deep experience in data modeling, processing, and analytics, with demonstrable proficiency across platforms like Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- You bring deep Salesforce platform expertise: Agentforce, Apex, LWC, Flows, and Salesforce APIs.
- You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done mindset focused on fast, impactful delivery - and the judgment to know when âfastâ is the wrong call.
- Youâve mentored technical talent and created reusable assets - frameworks, playbooks, internal tooling.
- You communicate clearly and credibly with engineering peers, customer architects, and executive stakeholders.
- You actively tinker with the evolving AI/data landscape - piloting new tools, experimenting with new models, and staying genuinely curious about whatâs coming next.
- Youâre excited to travel ~25% of the time, embedded with customer engineers.
Nice-to-Haves
- Salesforce certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I/II, Agentforce Specialist, System Architect)
- Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD practices, observability tooling, or data governance frameworks
- Experience architecting multi-cloud, multi-system enterprise AI solutions for Global 500 customers
- Track record of influencing enterprise software product roadmaps through field engineering insight
- Open-source contributions, published technical writing, or conference presentations
Benefits & conditions
- Ownership technique : En partenariat avec un Deployment Strategist, vous assumez les rĂ©sultats clients de bout en bout. Vous ĂȘtes lâautoritĂ© technique senior dans la salle, veillant Ă ce que les livrables rĂ©pondent aux plus hauts standards dâingĂ©nierie, quâils aient Ă©tĂ© gĂ©nĂ©rĂ©s par un outil IA, par un collĂšgue ou Ă©crits directement par vous.
- IngĂ©nierie assistĂ©e par lâIA : Cursor, Claude et les produits de codage Salesforce comme Vibes sont intĂ©grĂ©s dans votre flux de travail quotidien. Les conventions et patterns que vous dĂ©veloppez ont tendance Ă se propager dans lâĂ©quipe, car les autres BĂątisseurs prennent votre travail comme rĂ©fĂ©rence.
- Influence sur la roadmap : Votre expĂ©rience terrain remonte directement aux Ă©quipes Produit et IngĂ©nierie. Les lacunes que vous identifiez et les cas limites que vous rencontrez dans les environnements clients rĂ©els deviennent les fonctionnalitĂ©s quâils livrent. Les Senior Forward Deployed Engineers sont la voix la plus crĂ©dible dans lâĂ©volution des produits dâIA agentique.
- Innovation continue : Vous ĂȘtes attendu* e Ă la pointe - en testant les outils IA Ă©mergents, en expĂ©rimentant de nouveaux modĂšles et frameworks, et en partageant ce que vous apprenez avec votre Ă©quipe et vos clients.
Ce que vous construirez concrĂštement
- Prendre en charge le dĂ©veloppement et le dĂ©ploiement de bout en bout de solutions dâIA agentique pour les clients les plus stratĂ©giques de Salesforce - des dĂ©cisions dâarchitecture Ă la passation en production.
- Concevoir et livrer des systĂšmes agentiques sur la plateforme Agentforce : logique dâagent, appels dâoutils, orchestration multi-agents, garde-fous dĂ©terministes et patterns dâintĂ©gration robustes en environnements entreprise. Vos implĂ©mentations de rĂ©fĂ©rence deviennent la base sur laquelle les autres BĂątisseurs sâappuient pour aborder des problĂšmes similaires.
- Gérer le cycle de vie des données : conception des modÚles, pipelines de traitement et préparation des données pour les applications IA sur Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks et les plateformes spécifiques aux clients.
- RĂ©soudre les blocages techniques que les autres ingĂ©nieurs ne peuvent pas dĂ©bloquer - Ă©checs dâintĂ©gration de donnĂ©es, problĂšmes de dĂ©ploiement de modĂšles, pannes dâorchestration, rĂ©gressions de performance. Ces problĂšmes vous sont confiĂ©s en raison de votre historique de rĂ©solution.
- CrĂ©er et maintenir des tableaux de bord de performance des agents et des reportings KPI clients pour suivre la santĂ© des dĂ©ploiements et les rĂ©sultats business sur lâensemble des engagements.
- DĂ©velopper des preuves de concept et des MVPs rapidement, avec le discernement nĂ©cessaire pour savoir quelles dĂ©cisions peuvent ĂȘtre diffĂ©rĂ©es et lesquelles doivent ĂȘtre correctes dĂšs le premier essai.
- Formaliser ce que vous apprenez. Les patterns, actifs rĂ©utilisables et frameworks internes issus de votre travail client rĂ©el deviennent les playbooks dont le reste de lâorganisation sâinspire.
- Mentorer les autres ingĂ©nieurs via des revues de code, des sessions de pair-programming et du travail partagĂ©. Lâessentiel de votre influence sur le dĂ©veloppement des ingĂ©nieurs se produit au sein des mĂȘmes bases de code que vous construisez.
- Apporter une profondeur technique sur les dĂ©ploiements Ă risque ou stratĂ©giquement critiques lorsquâun jugement dâingĂ©nierie senior est nĂ©cessaire.
- Remonter les insights terrain directement aux équipes Produit et Ingénierie. Les lacunes et cas limites que vous rencontrez dans les environnements clients réels constituent certaines des entrées les plus précieuses pour la roadmap Agentforce.
- Collaborer avec le Deployment Strategist de votre équipe pour traduire les défis business complexes des clients en solutions agentiques qui sont réellement livrées.
Vous ĂȘtes notre Senior Forward Deployed Engineer siâŠ
- Vous avez 6 ans ou plus dâexpĂ©rience en ingĂ©nierie logicielle ou en livraison technique, avec une ownership prouvĂ©e de bout en bout de systĂšmes de production scalables dans des environnements dâIA entreprise, cloud ou SaaS.
- Vous ĂȘtes titulaire dâun diplĂŽme en informatique ou dans un domaine connexe.
- Vous ĂȘtes expert* e dans au moins un des langages Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java ou Apex, et Ă lâaise avec les autres.
- Vous avez intĂ©grĂ© des LLMs en production, utilisĂ© des frameworks comme LangChain ou LlamaIndex, et appliquĂ© des pratiques de prompt engineering et dâIA responsable dans des contextes clients rĂ©els.
- Vous avez une solide expérience en modélisation, traitement et analyse de données, avec une maßtrise démontrable sur des plateformes telles que Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake ou Databricks.
- Vous apportez une expertise approfondie de la plateforme Salesforce : Agentforce, Apex, LWC, Flows et les APIs Salesforce.
- Vous avez un esprit entrepreneurial et orientĂ© rĂ©sultats, axĂ© sur une livraison rapide et impactante - et le discernement pour savoir quand ârapideâ nâest pas le bon choix.
- Vous avez mentoré des talents techniques et créé des actifs réutilisables - frameworks, playbooks, outillage interne.
- Vous communiquez clairement et de maniÚre crédible avec vos pairs en ingénierie, les architectes clients et les parties prenantes exécutives.
- Vous explorez activement le paysage Ă©volutif de lâIA et des donnĂ©es - en testant de nouveaux outils, en expĂ©rimentant de nouveaux modĂšles et en restant genuinement curieux* se de ce qui arrive.
- Vous ĂȘtes prĂȘt* e Ă voyager environ 25 % du temps, en immersion avec les Ă©quipes dâingĂ©nierie des clients.
Atouts supplémentaires
- Certifications Salesforce (Administrateur, Platform Developer I/II, Agentforce Specialist, System Architect)
- FamiliaritĂ© avec les pratiques DevOps/CI-CD, les outils dâobservabilitĂ© ou les frameworks de gouvernance des donnĂ©es
- ExpĂ©rience dans la conception de solutions dâIA entreprise multi-cloud et multi-systĂšmes pour des clients du Global 500
- Historique dâinfluence sur les roadmaps de produits logiciels entreprise grĂące aux insights du terrain
- Contributions open-source, publications techniques ou présentations en conférences
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, youâll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, weâll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine whatâs possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Accommodations, + Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Parental Benefits
- Adoption Leave
- Return-to-Work Program
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
- Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- Snacks
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Sabbatical
- Volunteer Time Off
- Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Company Equity
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
- Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Professional Coaching
- Work Visa Sponsorship
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Unconscious Bias Training
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
About the company
Salesforce brings companies and customers together in the number one Customer Relationship Management platform., Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isnât a buzzword - itâs a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and weâre looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforceâs core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? Youâre in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
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