Senior Agentic AI Deployment Lead

Leadout Capital; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of agentic AI solutions for strategic customers. You will architect, deploy, and mentor, embedding within customer environments and collaborating with Deployment Strategists.

You’ll design on Agentforce, manage data lifecycles, and push for practical, production-ready outcomes while staying at the frontier of AI advances. Travel ~25% will be required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Expert in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
• Experience integrating LLMs in production with LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Deep experience in data modeling, processing, analytics with Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Deep Salesforce platform expertise: Agentforce, Apex, LWC, Flows, and Salesforce APIs.
• Mentored technical talent and created reusable assets and frameworks.
• Strong communication with engineering peers, customer architects, and executives.
• Willingness to travel ~25% to work with customer engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end build and deployment of agentic AI solutions for Salesforce's strategic customers, from architecture to production handoff.
• Design and ship agentic systems on the Agentforce platform: agent logic, tool calls, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails, and integration patterns.
• Own the data lifecycle: model design, processing pipelines, and data readiness for AI apps across Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks.
• Resolve blockers like data integration failures, model deployment issues, and orchestration breakdowns.
• Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and KPI reporting across engagements.
• Develop proofs-of-concept and MVPs quickly with prudent decision-making.
• Codify learnings into playbooks and reusable assets for the org.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pair sessions.
• Provide depth on at-risk deployments and surface field insights to Product/Engineering.
• Travel ~25% to work embedded with customer engineers.
• Partner with Deployment Strategist to translate business challenges into ship-ready agentic solutions.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Enterprise AI

Cloud/SaaS

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Apex

LLMs in production

Data modeling

Salesforce platform

Mentoring

Communication

Travel ~25%

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Salesforce Data 360

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Salesforce seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of agentic AI solutions for strategic customers. You will architect, deploy, and mentor, embedding within customer environments and collaborating with Deployment Strategists.

You’ll design on Agentforce, manage data lifecycles, and push for practical, production-ready outcomes while staying at the frontier of AI advances. Travel ~25% will be required.