Forward Deployed Engineer (multiple Levels)

Salesforce · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan

Forward Deployed Engineer with 5+ years of experience to lead complex AI agentic deployments. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying bespoke AI solutions leveraging the Agentforce platform and other technologies, acting as a strategic partner to clients and mentoring junior engineers. Responsibilities include end-to-end technical delivery, building AI/LLM-based intelligent agents and automated workflows, data lifecycle management, and resolving complex technical challenges.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be responsible for the end-to-end technical delivery of complex AI solutions, personally writing critical code, configuring systems, and troubleshooting issues, while also guiding and reviewing the work of junior team members to ensure successful deployment and measurable business impact.
  2. Take primary ownership of designing, developing, and personally implementing high-quality, scalable production systems. A significant part of this will involve architecting and deploying complex AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based intelligent agents and automated workflows, all built on top of the Salesforce platform.
  3. Work directly with customers to design and build custom intelligent agents using the Agentforce platform, ensuring they precisely meet unique business requirements and integrate seamlessly with existing customer ecosystems.
  4. Own the entire data lifecycle, from strategic design of data models to hands-on building of efficient processing pipelines and establishing seamless integration strategies. You'll ensure data is always ready, optimized, and secure for our advanced AI applications, often navigating complex enterprise data environments.
  5. Identify, analyze, and directly resolve the most complex technical challenges during all phases of solution delivery, from intricate data integration to sophisticated model deployment and advanced agent orchestration. You'll be the ultimate go-to expert for unblocking progress.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ 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

Nice to have

  • mentoring junior peers
  • deep technical mastery
  • unparalleled problem-solving prowess
  • relentless focus on delivering tangible value
  • shaping technical strategy
  • ensuring successful outcomes
  • measurable business impact
  • scalable production systems
  • Salesforce platform
  • seamless integration with existing customer ecosystems
  • complex enterprise data environments
  • sophisticated model deployment
  • voice of the customer in product discussions
  • rapid prototyping
  • iterative refinement
  • code quality
  • scalability
  • security
  • maintainability

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience
  • complex AI agentic deployments
  • architecting and deploying complex AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based intelligent agents and automated workflows
  • design and build custom intelligent agents
  • advanced agent orchestration frameworks

Other signals

  • AI agentic deployments
  • Agentforce platform
  • architecting and deploying complex AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based intelligent agents and automated workflows
  • design and build custom intelligent agents
  • advanced agent orchestration frameworks