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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.\nReady 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.\nAbout the Role\nProduction experience required. Builder mindset non-negotiable.\nSalesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers - experienced Technical Builders who design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly inside enterprise customer environments. You'll work as part of a delivery team, partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist (Strategic Builder - a customer-facing advisor who shapes AI strategy and drives adoption) to co-build solutions that go live in production environments from day one. Engagements range from a single large strategic customer to multiple accounts simultaneously. The common thread is real code, real environments, and measurable business impact. This work spans configuration, customisation, and full-stack deployment - shipping solutions customers depend on.\nThe Builder Experience\nAI-Powered Development: Ship real customer solutions, supported by best-in-class AI tools - Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes - embedded into your day-to-day workflow.\nCollaborative Delivery: You'll work alongside Senior Forward Deployed Engineers and a Deployment Strategist. You'll own real components, benefit from structured mentorship from people who've shipped agentic systems at scale, and have a clear path to leading complex deliveries yourself.\nFrontier Access: Our agentic AI platform is evolving in real time. You'll work on capabilities most engineers won't touch for months - spanning Agentforce, data, platform, and headless architectures - and your field insight will feed directly to the product teams building them.\nContinuous Innovation: You'll be expected to stay at the forefront, experimenting with emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks, and sharing what you learn with your team and customers.\nWhat You'll Actually Be Building\nDevelop 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.\nDesign agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems, leveraging our Agentic AI platform and current LLM techniques.\nOwn technical components end-to-end: from architecture choice to deployed, validated, and observable in production.\nBuild and integrate data pipelines on Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms. Model the data, ship the pipeline, validate the output.\nBuild and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes.\nContribute to proofs-of-concept and MVPs that move from sketch to deployable in days, not months.\nCo-build alongside customers and partners, sharing best practices and enablement as you go. Leaving teams more capable after each engagement than before.\nSurface platform gaps, edge cases, and field insights to senior Engineers and the product team. Your real-world experience is the product feedback loop.\nPartner with the Deployment Strategist in your pod to translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions that actually ship.\n You're Our Forward Deployed Engineer If…\nYou 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.\nYou have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.\nYou have prior customer-facing technical delivery experience (consulting, professional services, or forward deployed engineering) - this is a requirement, not a nice-to-have.\nYou're fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex - and willing to add to that list as the work demands.\nYou've been hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering. You can explain why a prompt failed and what you'd change.\nYou understand data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns deeply enough to design them, not just consume them.\nYou can hold your own in a room with sales teams and customer architects.\nYou ship quality code and evaluate AI outputs with engineering rigor.\nYou actively tinker with the evolving AI/data landscape - piloting new tools, experimenting with new models, and staying genuinely curious about what's coming next.\nYou thrive in the group chat that's building something, not just talking about it.\nYou're excited to travel ~25% of the time, working directly alongside customers.\n Nice-to-Haves\nSalesforce platform experience or certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist)\nFamiliarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) and orchestration patterns\nHands-on with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)\nExperience across specialist AI delivery areas: data engineering, platform architecture, or headless deployments\nÀ propos du poste\nExpérience en production requise. Mentalité Builder non négociable.\nSalesforce recrute des Forward Deployed Engineers - des Technical Builders expérimentés qui conçoivent, développent et déploient des solutions d'IA agentique directement dans les environnements clients en entreprise. Vous travaillerez au sein d'une équipe de delivery, en étroite collaboration avec un Deployment Strategist (Strategic Builder - un conseiller orienté client qui façonne la stratégie IA et pilote l'adoption) pour co-construire des solutions mises en production dès le premier jour. Les missions vont d'un grand compte stratégique unique à plusieurs comptes simultanés. Le fil conducteur : du vrai code, de vrais environnements, et un impact business mesurable. Ce travail couvre la configuration, la personnalisation et le déploiement full-stack - en livrant des solutions dont les clients dépendent.\nL'expérience Builder\nDéveloppement assisté par l'IA : Livrez de vraies solutions clients, avec les meilleurs outils IA du marché - Cursor, Claude, et les produits Salesforce comme Vibes - intégrés à votre quotidien.\nDelivery collaboratif : Vous travaillerez aux côtés de Senior Forward Deployed Engineers et d'un Deployment Strategist. Vous serez responsable de composants concrets, bénéficierez d'un mentorat structuré de personnes ayant déjà livré des systèmes agentiques à grande échelle, avec une trajectoire claire vers la conduite de projets complexes.\nAccès à la frontière technologique : Notre plateforme d'IA agentique évolue en temps réel. Vous travaillerez sur des capacités que la plupart des ingénieurs n'aborderont pas avant des mois - couvrant Agentforce, la data, la plateforme et les architectures headless - et vos insights terrain alimenteront directement les équipes produit qui les développent.\nInnovation continue : Vous devrez rester à la pointe, en expérimentant de nouveaux outils IA, modèles et frameworks, et en partageant vos apprentissages avec votre équipe et vos clients.\nCe que vous allez concrètement construire\nDévelopper des agents IA et des expériences qui réalisent de vraies actions pour de vraies organisations. Nos solutions sont en production chez certaines des plus grandes entreprises mondiales. Ce travail a du sens parce que les clients en dépendent.\nConcevoir l'intelligence des agents : prompts, raisonnement, appels d'outils et intégration avec les systèmes clients, en s'appuyant sur notre plateforme d'IA agentique et les techniques LLM actuelles.\nPrendre en charge des composants techniques de bout en bout : du choix d'architecture jusqu'au déploiement, validé et observable en production.\nConstruire et intégrer des pipelines de données sur Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks et les plateformes de données clients. Modéliser la donnée, livrer le pipeline, valider les outputs.\nDévelopper et maintenir des dashboards de performance des agents et des reportings KPI clients pour suivre la santé des déploiements et les résultats business.\nContribuer à des preuves de concept et des MVP qui passent de l'esquisse au déployable en jours, pas en mois.\nCo-construire aux côtés des clients et partenaires, en partageant les meilleures pratiques et en les montant en compétences au fil des missions. Laisser les équipes plus capables après chaque engagement qu'avant.\nRemonter les lacunes de la plateforme, cas limites et insights terrain aux ingénieurs seniors et à l'équipe produit. Votre expérience terrain est la boucle de feedback produit.\nTravailler en binôme avec le Deployment Strategist de votre pod pour traduire les enjeux business clients en solutions agentiques qui livrent vraiment.\n Vous êtes notre Forward Deployed Engineer si…\nVous avez 3+ ans d'expérience en ingénierie logicielle ou en delivery technique, avec au moins un système en production dont vous seriez fier de nous parler - idéalement dans une stack IA, du développement full-stack, ou avec des modèles frontier.\nVous êtes titulaire d'un diplôme en Informatique ou dans un domaine connexe.\nVous avez une expérience préalable en delivery technique orienté client (conseil, services professionnels ou forward deployed engineering) - c'est une exigence, pas un bonus.\nVous maîtrisez au moins un langage parmi Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java ou Apex - et êtes prêt à en ajouter d'autres selon les besoins.\nVous avez une expérience pratique des LLMs et du prompt engineering. Vous pouvez expliquer pourquoi un prompt a échoué et ce que vous changeriez.\nVous comprenez la modélisation de données, les APIs et les patterns d'intégration suffisamment en profondeur pour les concevoir, pas seulement les consommer.\nVous êtes à l'aise dans une salle avec des équipes commerciales et des architectes clients.\nVous livrez du code de qualité et évaluez les outputs IA avec la rigueur d'un ingénieur.\nVous explorez activement le paysage IA/data en évolution - en testant de nouveaux outils, en expérimentant de nouveaux modèles, et en restant sincèrement curieux de ce qui arrive.\nVous vous épanouissez dans le groupe de travail qui construit quelque chose, pas seulement qui en parle.\nVous êtes enthousiaste à l'idée de voyager ~25% du temps pour travailler directement aux côtés des clients.\n Atouts supplémentaires\nExpérience sur la plateforme Salesforce ou certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist)\nFamiliarité avec les frameworks d'agents (LangChain, LlamaIndex) et les patterns d'orchestration\nExpérience pratique des plateformes de données cloud (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)\nExpérience dans des domaines IA spécialisés : data engineering, architecture plateforme ou déploiements headless\nUnleash Your Potential\nWhen you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. 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