Forward Deployed Engineer

416 salesforce.com Germany GmbH; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 135.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Salesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to design, build, and deploy AI agentic solutions directly inside customer environments. You will work with a Deployment Strategist to co-create production-grade AI deployments that deliver measurable business impact.

The role requires 3+ years in software engineering or technical delivery, a CS degree, and fluency in German and English, with hands-on experience across AI stacks and data platforms.

Qualifikationen

• Fluent in German and English.
• 3+ years as software engineer or technical delivery professional.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Prior customer-facing technical delivery experience required.
• Proficient in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.

Aufgaben

• Develop AI agents and experiences for enterprise environments.
• Design agent intelligence, prompts, tooling, and integrations.
• Collaborate with Deployment Strategist to deliver production solutions.
• Support data pipelines and KPI reporting for deployment health.

Kenntnisse

German & English fluency

Software engineering

CS degree

Customer-facing delivery

Python/JavaScript/Java/Apex

LLMs & prompt engineering

Data modeling & APIs

Travel ~25%

Team collaboration

Ausbildung

Computer Science degree

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Jobbeschreibung

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Sales Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. About the Role Production experience required. Builder mindset non-negotiable. 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 (Strategic Builder - a customer-facing advisor who shapes AI strategy and drives adoption) 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. The common thread is real code, real environments, and measurable business impact. This work spans configuration, customisation, and full-stack deployment — shipping solutions customers depend on.

What You'll Actually Be Building

Develop AI agents and experiences that take real actions for real organisations. Our solutions are in production at some of the largest enterprises on the planet. The work matters because the customers depend on it. Design agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems, leveraging our Agentic AI platform and current LLM techniques. 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. Model the data, ship the pipeline, validate the output. Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes. Contribute to proofs-of-concept and MVPs that move from sketch to deployable in days, not months. Co-build alongside customers and partners, sharing best practices and enablement as you go. Leaving teams more capable after each engagement than before. Surface platform gaps, edge cases, and field insights to senior Engineers and the product team. Your real-world experience is the product feedback loop. Partner with the Deployment Strategist in your pod to translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions that actually ship. You're Our Forward Deployed Engineer If…

• Your fluent in German and English
• You have 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with at least one production system you'd be proud to walk us through - ideally in an AI tech stack, full-stack development, or working with frontier models
• You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• You have prior customer-facing technical delivery experience (consulting, professional services, or forward deployed engineering) — this is a requirement, not a nice-to-have.
• You're fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex — and willing to add to that list as the work demands.
• You've been hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering.
• You can explain why a prompt failed and what you'd change.
• You understand data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns deeply enough to design them, not just consume them.
• You can hold your own in a room with sales teams and customer architects.
• You ship quality code and evaluate AI outputs with engineering rigor.
• 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 thrive in the group chat that's building something, not just talking about it.
• You're excited to travel ~25% of the time, working directly alongside customers.

Nice-to-Haves

• Salesforce platform experience or certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist)
• Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) and orchestration patterns
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)
• Experience across specialist AI delivery areas: data engineering, platform architecture, or headless deployments

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll 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, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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