
Associate Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Maryland • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $96,300 - $176,700 per year
About the role
- 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).
- Proven track record of hands-on, end-to-end delivery of high-quality, scalable production solutions in a professional environment.
- Hands-on experience building solutions with AI/LLM technologies, including integrating LLMs, applying 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 work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high levels of independence.
- Strong communication skills, capable of engaging directly with users, executives, and engineers, with a collaborative mindset, bias for action, and customer obsession.
- 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.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Mental health support
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Hard Skills & Tools
SalesforceJavaScriptJavaPythonApexAI/ML technologiesdata integrationAPI designETLAI orchestration frameworks
Soft Skills
strong communication skillscollaborative mindsetbias for actioncustomer obsessionability to work independentlyability to work in ambiguous environments
Certifications
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph