Field Deployment AI Engineer

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Agentforce Operations. This hands-on role designs, builds, and deploys enterprise-grade AI solutions directly inside customer environments, enabling multi-agent orchestration and automated workflows.

You will operate in an agile deployment pod with a Deployment Strategist and AI Engineers, writing production code, building grounding systems, and connecting AFO to data clouds, ERP systems, and cloud warehouses.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience with at least one production AI, data engineering, or enterprise integration system deployed to production.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
• Hands-on AI grounding: experience with LLM orchestration, prompt tuning, and RAG pipelines with enterprise data.
• Experience with API design (REST/SOAP/webhooks) and agent protocols (MCP, tool calling, event-driven messaging).

Responsibilities

• Build and orchestrate complex operational workflows using Agentforce Operations (AFO).
• Implement agent-to-agent communication standards and context-sharing protocols.
• Design real-time data grounding systems with vector indexes and knowledge bases.
• Develop APIs and integration pipelines to Salesforce Data Cloud and ERP systems.
• Write production code and deploy AI-enabled workflows in customer environments.

Skills

3+ years software engineering

Python/JavaScript/TypeScript/Java

AI grounding

Multi-Agent Systems

MuleSoft/middleware

Cloud data platforms

Tools

MuleSoft

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Docker

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Agentforce Operations. This hands-on role designs, builds, and deploys enterprise-grade AI solutions directly inside customer environments, enabling multi-agent orchestration and automated workflows.

You will operate in an agile deployment pod with a Deployment Strategist and AI Engineers, writing production code, building grounding systems, and connecting AFO to data clouds, ERP systems, and cloud warehouses.