
Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education
Salesforce
Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education
Salesforce is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education team in Melbourne. This role involves designing, building, and deploying agentic AI solutions in customer environments, requiring production experience and a builder mindset. Candidates need 3+ years of software engineering experience, customer-facing delivery experience, and fluency in at least one programming language.
Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education
Salesforce is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education team in Melbourne. This role involves designing, building, and deploying agentic AI solutions in customer environments, requiring production experience and a builder mindset. Candidates need 3+ years of software engineering experience, customer-facing delivery experience, and fluency in at least one programming language.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Develop AI agents and experiences that take real actions for real organizations.
- Design agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems.
- Own technical components end-to-end: from architecture choice to deployed, validated, and observable in production.
- Build and integrate data pipelines on Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms.
- Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting.
- Contribute to proofs-of-concept and MVPs that move from sketch to deployable in days.
- Co-build alongside customers and partners, sharing best practices and enablement.
- Surface platform gaps, edge cases, and field insights to senior Engineers and the product team.
- Partner with the Deployment Strategist to translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions.