Senior AI Deployment Engineer — Forward Deployed (Travel)

Salesforce; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly inside large enterprise environments. You will work in a delivery pod, partnering with a Deployment Strategist to ship production‑ready components from architecture through to deployment.

You will contribute to PoCs and MVPs, own end‑to‑end technical delivery, and collaborate with customers on data pipelines and platform integration, with up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with at least one production system.
• Fluent in at least two of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering; APIs and data modelling.
• Willing to travel ~25% and work in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents and experiences end-to-end in production.
• Build data pipelines and maintain KPI dashboards and reporting.
• Contribute to PoCs and MVPs co-built with customers and partners.
• Identify platform gaps and translate challenges into agentic solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical delivery

LLMs & prompt engineering

Full-stack development

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Salesforce Data Cloud

LangChain

LlamaIndex

APIs

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly inside large enterprise environments. You will work in a delivery pod, partnering with a Deployment Strategist to ship production‑ready components from architecture through to deployment.

You will contribute to PoCs and MVPs, own end‑to‑end technical delivery, and collaborate with customers on data pipelines and platform integration, with up to 25% travel.