Salesforce

Associate Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: MarylandVirginiaUnited 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