Salesforce
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education
$89K–$317K
Virginia - Mclean +14 · Office - Flexible · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Virginia - Mclean
Maryland - Remote
Illinois - Chicago
West Virginia - Washington DC Metro - Remote
Virginia - Remote
California - Irvine
Indiana - Indianapolis
California - San Francisco
New York - New York
Virginia - Washington DC Metro - Remote
Maryland - Washington DC Metro - Remote
Texas - Dallas
Colorado - Denver
Georgia - Atlanta
Texas - Austin - Experience
- 3+ years; 6–10 years for Senior levels.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Build and deploy production agentic AI solutions for public-sector, nonprofit, and education customers, working with customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
What you'll do
- Design, build, integrate, and deploy AI agents, data pipelines, and related components in customer production environments.
- Deliver customer-facing projects, proofs-of-concept, and MVPs; monitor agent performance and report on KPIs and deployment health.
- Partner with customers, partners, and internal teams to translate business needs into solutions and share field insights.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience (6–10 years for Senior levels), including a production system; prior customer-facing technical delivery experience is required.
- Proven experience managing and delivering customer-facing projects in Public Sector, Higher Education, or Nonprofit environments.
- Fluency in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex; hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering.
Nice to have
- Salesforce platform experience or certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist).
- Familiarity with LangChain or LlamaIndex; hands-on cloud data platform experience including Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
Pay
$88,970 - $287,910 USD base salary annually; $97,860 - $316,750 USD base salary per year
Tools
Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Apex, Agentforce, Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks
AI focus
Develop and deploy agentic AI solutions, including agent reasoning, prompts, tool calls, integrations, and evaluation of AI outputs; experiment with AI tools, models, and frameworks.
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