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. ​

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Public Sector team, you'll be embedded with the U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Aerospace clients — designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions that drive mission-critical outcomes. Additionally you'll architect the backbone of a planet-scale platform that ships hundreds of features daily with rock-solid reliability and security.

This role demands a builder's mindset, an AI-first approach, and the technical depth to take complex challenges from concept to production.

Mission Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements—designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.

• Engineer distributed systems running across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud

• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines

• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.

• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.

• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

• Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

• Partner directly with customers and mission stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical solutions

• Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and best-practice evangelism across teams

• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical role model

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience

• 4+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects

• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills

• Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences

• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

• A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles

• Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration

• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems

• Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs and patterns

• Ability to travel 25–50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.

• Active Secret clearance preferred

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered

• Background in defense/aerospace, classified environments (IL5/IL6), or federal civilian agencies

• Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization

• Application design and development background

• Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications

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