Solution Engineer - Federal Civilian

Salesforce.com, inc.; Virginia, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce.com, inc. is seeking a senior Federal Public Sector Solution Engineer to design, build, and demonstrate Agentic Enterprise solutions for government missions.

You will guide full discovery, architecture, and activation through deployment while collaborating with federal agencies and executives. The role requires hands-on demonstrations, technical leadership, and a strong ability to translate complex tech into mission outcomes, with a focus on data, AI, and trust across agency

Qualifications

• 7+ years customer-facing solution/technical architecture with increasing scope
• Degree in Computer Science required
• Proficiency of Salesforce Core and Data 360/Agentforce stack
• Agentic AI fluency including LLMs, RAG and governance
• Experience with agentic engineering tools
• Executive + technical communication skills
• Growth mindset and ongoing enablement

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and business discovery sessions with federal stakeholders to scope agentic solutions
• Build demonstrations and POCs showing autonomous AI agents for federal workflows
• Deliver world-class product demonstrations tied to agency missions and requirements
• Create end-to-end architectures integrating Salesforce Agentic Enterprise Platform
• Design and lead hands-on workshops for IT leads and Enterprise Architects
• Present solutions to GS/Executive leadership, translating technology to outcomes/ROI
• Lead RFI/RFP responses ensuring technical accuracy and security compliance
• Drive activation with customers on definition, configuration and deployment strategies
• Identify automation opportunities to accelerate activation and reduce friction
• Build reusable accelerators and playbooks to scale delivery
• Incorporate Voice of the Customer into Product messaging and plays
• Leverage AI tools to iterate on platform configurations and components

Skills

Solution architecture

Pre-sales

Public Sector

Salesforce Core

Agentic AI

Executive communication

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Agentforce Vibes

Job description

Be part of Salesforce’s high-energy Federal Public Sector Solution Engineering (SE) team, where your technical expertise meets a higher purpose. In this role, you aren't just selling software - you are a mission-critical partner in improving how government serves its citizens

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of digital transformation. You are a customer-facing technical trusted advisor who will support vital federal missions by designing, building and demonstrating how our Agentic Government Cloud solutions solve the government’s most complex challenges. You will lead technical discovery, shape and execute proof points for customer environments, guide production readiness, and establish a clear path to activation and consumption—blending executive presence with deep, full-stack technical skills across Salesforce, modern data architectures, and AI.

Role Description

The SE is focused on helping our government customers become a true Agentic Enterprise by operationalizing Data + AI + Trust. You will serve as a definitive subject matter expert for our government solutions and guide customers across the lifecycle—from technical evaluation and close through activation, adoption, and expansion.

Your Impact

• Lead deep technical and business discovery sessions with federal stakeholders to uncover mission gaps, pain points, and legacy bottlenecks to scope agentic solution use cases, translate outcomes/ROI into an executable architecture, demonstration/proof-of-concept (POC) and activation plan
• Build high-impact demonstrations and POCs on the platform. This includes configuring Agentforce to demonstrate how autonomous AI agents can automate federal workflows and citizen services.
• Deliver world-class product demonstrations that tell a compelling story, showing how Salesforce solves specific agency missions needed to achieve the functional requirements of the customer.
• Create end-to-end technical architectures and solutions that integrate Salesforce’s Agentic Enterprise Platform with the unique security and enterprise architecture needed to achieve the technical win.
• Design and lead hands‑on technical workshops and "Deep Dives" for agency IT leads and Enterprise Architects.
• Confidently present technical solutions to GS/Executive‑level leadership and political appointees, simplifying complex tech into mission outcomes.
• Serve as the technical lead for Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) responses, ensuring technical accuracy and security compliance.
• Drive activation by partnering with customers on agent definition, configuration, and deployment strategy to accelerate production readiness
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities by intaking both process and technical requirements to remove friction and accelerate activation
• Build reusable accelerators (demo environments, components, POC assets, playbooks, best practices) and enable others to scale delivery
• Drive Voice of the Customer into Product; inform messaging/plays with Product Marketing
• Leverage modern 3rd‑party development tools and AI‑assisted coding to rapidly build and iterate on platform configurations, front‑end experiences and custom components.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years customer‑facing solution/technical architecture (pre‑sales, consulting, implementation) with increasing scope/influence.
• Degree in Computer Science required (B.S., Master’s, or Ph.D.)
• Proficiency of Salesforce Core (Public Sector Solutions, Sales, Service, Experience Cloud) and the Data 360/Agentforce stack.
• Agentic + AI fluency: practical understanding of LLMs, RAG/grounding, evaluation concepts, and how agentic systems behave in production (safety, reliability, governance).
• Experience with agentic engineering tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Agentforce Vibes, etc).
• The ability to run technical & business discovery to define agentic solution use cases, success metrics, and a feasible execution plan.
• Executive + technical communication: able to lead whiteboards and communicate with developers and C‑suite with equal fluency, and translate architecture to outcomes/ROI.
• Growth mindset; willingness to continually sharpen technical/advisory skills through required enablement, labs, courses, and certifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Salesforce engineering depth; Apex and Lightning Web Components (or equivalent) and comfort operating across the SDLC.
• SQL and/or Python proficiency and comfort with modern cloud data platforms/analytics tooling (Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery; Tableau/Looker/Power BI).
• Experience with other agent platforms (e.g., Gemini/Agentspace or similar) and broader AI automation implementations.
• Consumption/business modeling with understanding of consumption levers and can map anticipated consumption spend from architecture/usage patterns
• Proven experience in modern application development; specifically, a working knowledge of Java, Python, or Node.js, and an understanding of modern API patterns such as REST, GraphQL, and Pub/Sub.
• Understanding of the Federal Civilian market, procurement lifecycle and the nuances of the public sector mission.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• an employee stock purchasing program

More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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The typical base salary range for this position is $157,640 - $210,910 annually

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