Lead AI Deployment Engineer

Salesforce.com, inc.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build and deploy agentic AI solutions inside enterprise environments. You will lead a delivery pod, partnering with a Deployment Strategist to bring production-ready solutions to life from day one.

You will work with LLMs, LangChain, and data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, shaping end-to-end deployment and customer outcomes across large enterprises.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering, APIs, and data modelling.
• Fluency in English and at least one of German or French, willingness to travel ~25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of AI agents and experiences end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Build and integrate data pipelines on Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms; oversee KPI reporting.
• Lead PoCs and MVPs that move from concept to deployable quickly; mentor junior engineers.
• Serve as a senior technical voice in the pod and translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical delivery

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Data modelling

APIs

Cloud data platforms

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build and deploy agentic AI solutions inside enterprise environments. You will lead a delivery pod, partnering with a Deployment Strategist to bring production-ready solutions to life from day one.

You will work with LLMs, LangChain, and data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, shaping end-to-end deployment and customer outcomes across large enterprises.