Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Salesforce as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll lead technical delivery, mentor fellow engineers, and set engineering standards for deploying agentic AI solutions at scale. You'll partner with a Deployment Strategist to own customer outcomes end-to-end, influence the product roadmap, and drive continuous innovation. This role requires deep expertise in software engineering, data modeling, and the Salesforce platform.

• Lead technical delivery on your team, mentor engineers, and set engineering standards for deploying agentic AI solutions.
• Partner with a Deployment Strategist to own customer outcomes end-to-end, making architecture decisions and ensuring high engineering standards.
• Design and ship agentic systems on the Agentforce platform, owning the data lifecycle and resolving technical blockers.
• Salesforce certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I/II, Agentforce Specialist, System Architect)
• Experience architecting multi-cloud, multi-system enterprise AI solutions for Global 500 customers
• Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD practices, observability tooling, or data governance frameworks
• Track record of influencing enterprise software product roadmaps through field engineering insight
• You actively tinker with the evolving AI/data landscape — piloting new tools, experimenting with new models, and staying genuinely curious about what's coming next
• 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 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've integrated LLMs into production, used frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex, and applied prompt engineering and responsible AI practices in real customer contexts
• You communicate clearly and credibly with engineering peers, customer architects, and executive stakeholders
• You've mentored technical talent and created reusable assets — frameworks, playbooks, internal tooling
• You're an expert in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex, and conversant in the others
• Your fluent in German and English
• You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done mindset focused on fast, impactful delivery — and the judgment to know when "fast" is the wrong call
• Architectural judgment expected
• Technical depth required
• You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Open-source contributions, published technical writing, or conference presentations