Salesforce

Associate Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Salesforce

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Virginia

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Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

Tech Stack

CloudETLJavaJavaScriptPythonSFDCTableau

About the role

  • Mission Impact: Deploy AI solutions into defense, intelligence, and aerospace environments
  • Become a Trusted Partner and Collaborate Directly with End-Users in classified and unclassified environments to deeply understand mission needs, operational challenges, and strategic goals and translate them into technical implementations using Salesforce’s multi-cloud portfolio
  • Drive Innovation by serving as a connective bridge between customer missions and Salesforce engineering
  • You’ll gather frontline feedback and help co-design features and capabilities that strengthen national security outcomes
  • Improve Efficiency, Mission-Readiness, and Trust by helping the U.S. and allied governments deploy technology that delivers faster response times, better personnel utilization, and more effective logistics and asset management
  • Drive Tangible Outcomes through Hands-On Implementation and end-to-end technical delivery of AI solutions, personally writing code, configuring systems, and troubleshooting issues to ensure successful deployment and measurable business impact
  • Build Transformative AI Solutions by designing, developing, and personally implementing high-quality, scalable production systems
  • Direct Ownership of Data Configuration & Integration from end-to-end. You'll design robust data models, build efficient processing pipelines, and establish seamless integration strategies to ingest, transform, and analyze complex datasets
  • Your work will ensure data is protected and always ready and optimized for our AI applications
  • Drive Agentforce Innovation by becoming an expert in our innovative agentic platform
  • You'll directly push its capabilities to the limit, developing bespoke intelligent agents, automating intricate business processes, and crafting intuitive user experiences that deliver tangible value
  • Conduct Deep-Dive Technical Debugging and detailed analysis of complex system interactions, data flows, and AI model behaviors to optimize performance and ensure reliability
  • Prototype and Iterate Rapidly to develop proofs-of-concept and minimum viable products, coding alongside client teams to demonstrate capabilities and gather feedback for iterative refinement
  • Implement Best Practices for code quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across all deployed solutions
  • Mission Responsibilities: Serve as the technical advisor 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
  • Facilitate 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

  • 3-7 years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or systems integration
  • Strong background in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, Python, Apex)
  • Hands-on experience building AI/LLM solutions, including integrating LLMs, AI orchestration frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques
  • Experience with data integration, API design, ETL, and AI/ML model deployment
  • Familiarity with analytics, data warehouses, and operational dashboards (e.g. Tableau, CRM Analytics, Snowflake)
  • Experience working in or adjacent to secure environments
  • Ability to travel 25-50% of the time to customer sites
  • Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) living on U.S. soil with ability to meet customer/government screening standards; eligible for a US Security Clearance
  • Preferred Qualifications: DoD/IC or Federal Civilian experience; Salesforce platform familiarity; CNSS #1253; Salesforce certifications