Hybrid Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

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About the role

  • 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

Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$148,500 - $365,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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