FDE SWAT - Italy

Salesforce; Italia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design and deliver AI agent-based solutions in production for large-scale customers. You will own end-to-end technical delivery, from architecture to deployment, while collaborating with product, engineering, and customer teams to ensure success across deployments.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of software engineering, strong Python/JS/Java, and hands-on experience with LLMs, data pipelines, and customer-facing delivery.

Qualifications

• You have 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience.
• You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• You have production system experience and client-facing delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI agents and experiences that operate in production for large enterprises.
• Design agent intelligence, prompts, reasoning, and tool integration.
• Own end-to-end technical components from architecture to deployment.
• Build data pipelines and validate outputs with customer data platforms.
• Maintain agent performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to deliver deployable MVPs in days.
• Surface platform gaps and share lessons with engineering and product teams.
• Translate customer challenges into agentic solutions with the Deployment Strategist.

Skills

3+ years software engineering

Production system experience

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Apex

LLMs and prompt engineering

Data modeling

APIs & integration

Customer-facing delivery

Cloud data tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Salesforce Data 360

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

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.

The Experience

Production experience required. Builder mindset non-negotiable.

The FDE SWAT is a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer role focused on troubleshooting, fixing, and resolving complex issues in live customer deployments. As part of a team of specialists, you will be engaged by FDE Pods or directly by customers when critical problems arise, working quickly to diagnose root causes, implement fixes, and restore stable performance across Agentforce and the wider Salesforce platform. You will own issues end-to-end, from triage and investigation to resolution, validation, and handover, and you will be responsible for clear communication with stakeholders throughout, especially in high-pressure and time-sensitive situations. You will work closely with Product and Engineering as a direct escalation path: reproducing and documenting defects, providing detailed technical evidence, collaborating on fixes and workarounds, and tracking resolutions through to release. Beyond individual cases, you will identify recurring issue patterns, share lessons learned with the Pods, and build reusable diagnostics, runbooks, and preventive best practices that strengthen the quality and resilience of future deployments across the EMEA South FDE team.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• 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, and 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 Person If...

• 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 modelling, 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 rigour.
• 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 and work directly alongside customers.

Even Better If...

• 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