Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Salesforce, driving AI solutions for U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and ally missions while enhancing national security outcomes.
Responsibilities
Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements—designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.
Partner with internal product and engineering teams to co-develop new platform features that address real-world public sector and IL5/IL6 operational requirements.
Lead integration of AI/ML models, custom data pipelines, and automation flows that enable predictive maintenance, personnel planning, and mission-critical logistics decisions.
Enable customers to adopt Salesforce for field operations, asset visibility, command center operations, and secure collaboration through Slack and Government Cloud Plus.
Work with customer IT/security teams to accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO) and production go-lives per DoD IL5/IL6 and other regulatory frameworks.
Share lessons learned with the broader Salesforce community to shape playbooks, prototypes, and reusable assets for government innovation.
Partner with mission stakeholders to translate operational priorities into actionable technical roadmaps and Salesforce solutions aligned with agency strategy.
Requirements
8+ years of experience in a hands-on, end-to-end delivery role for high-quality, scalable production solutions in a professional environment.
Strong background in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
Expert-level proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, Python, Apex).
Extensive hands-on experience building and deploying solutions with AI/LLM technologies, including integrating LLMs, applying advanced AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), prompt engineering techniques, and experience with agentic frameworks.
Deep expertise in data modeling, processing, integration, and analytics, with demonstrable proficiency in enterprise data platforms (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
Demonstrated entrepreneurship, a "get-things-done" attitude, and a focus on fast, impactful delivery, with a proven ability to lead technical initiatives.
Exceptional collaboration, communication, and presentation skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven ability to lead technical engagements, mentor junior team members, and oversee technical aspects of projects.
Experience working in or adjacent to secure environments.
Ability to travel 25-50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.
Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) living on U.S. soil who does not hold dual citizenship with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role.
Benefits
time off programs
medical, dental, vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program
Job title
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