Hands-On Partner AI Platform Architect

Salesforce; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 172,500 - 260,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchasing program

401(k)

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring a hands-on Partner Technical Architect in Chicago to work directly with top SI partners to build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions. The ideal candidate will transform ambiguous enterprise AI challenges into effective solutions while coaching partners.

The role requires strong engineering judgment and experience with LLMs, agents, workflow orchestration, and multi-cloud architecture. Salesforce offers comprehensive benefits including health support and 401(k).

Qualifications

• Shipped or seriously prototyped real software, agents, automations, internal tools, or technical demos.
• Showcase work through GitHub repos, demo apps, notebooks, architecture docs, eval harnesses, demo orgs, or equivalent artifacts.
• Operate in regulated or complex enterprise environments where governance, trust, and delivery risk matter.

Responsibilities

• Prototype quickly to validate ideas, expose platform gaps, and unblock first-of-kind implementation risks.
• Build reference implementations, starter kits, demos, field kits, and evaluation harnesses that partners can fork, extend, and deploy.
• Coach Partner FDEs and architects through design clinics, office hours, portfolio reviews, and targeted technical walkthroughs.

Skills

Experience building with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, workflow orchestration, or automation systems.

Strong systems thinking across APIs, data flows, identity, security, integration, observability, and operational handoff.

Hands-on Salesforce, Agentforce, Data Cloud, Apex, Flow, LWC, MuleSoft, or multi-cloud architecture experience.

Comfort debugging agent behavior: traces, logs, failure modes, tool calls, bad context, bad data, latency.

Communicate clearly with engineers, architects, product teams, partner leaders, and executive stakeholders.

Education

Salesforce certifications helpful but not required if strong builder evidence is demonstrated.

Job description

Salesforce is hiring a hands-on Partner Technical Architect in Chicago to work directly with top SI partners to build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions. The ideal candidate will transform ambiguous enterprise AI challenges into effective solutions while coaching partners.

The role requires strong engineering judgment and experience with LLMs, agents, workflow orchestration, and multi-cloud architecture. Salesforce offers comprehensive benefits including health support and 401(k).