5 Reasons Forward Deployed Engineers Choose Salesforce

No matter where you’ve come from, you’ve likely had to choose between two career paths: the speed and ownership of a startup, or the stability and scale of a global enterprise. For your next step, what if the best choice was not to choose at all? 

At Salesforce, the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role is your chance to do the best work of your career because we give you the best of both worlds. This isn’t off-the-shelf implementation; it’s custom, thought-provoking work where you have the autonomy and creativity to build the best solution for your customer and deploy it within weeks. You also get access to a wealth of enablement resources, a direct line to product teams, and a runway to see your solutions move at scale. ​​You’ve earned the right to have both, and we’re excited to offer you the platform to achieve your greatest impact yet. 

The Ultimate Engineering Playground

Beyond the best of both worlds, the FDE role at Salesforce offers a unique opportunity to build a career that is as impactful as it is dynamic. Here, you’ll get to: 

1. Build with Trailblazing Technologies 

For FDEs, a core part of the role is working with trailblazing technology. The Agentforce platform is built on the breakthrough Atlas Reasoning Engine. It reasons, plans, and adapts like a human, making Agentforce not just powerful, but truly autonomous. You’ll also get to leverage our unified Data Cloud. It pulls all customer data — structured or unstructured — into a single source of truth, so you spend less time on fragmented tech and more time building. Best of all, Agentforce gives you the flexibility to choose the best LLMs, tools, and workflows for each customer, so you can create custom solutions that launch quickly and deliver rapid, tangible impact.

2. Shape the Product Roadmap

As an FDE at Salesforce, you don’t just implement a project, you influence the product. You grow from an implementer into a thought partner and trusted advisor, with your insights representing the voice of the customer. You will be a crucial bridge between what customers need and what our product teams build, ensuring that our products continue to evolve to solve our customers’ most complex problems.

3. Grow Through Variety

Instead of working on a single project or account for years, you’ll work in outcome-driven sprints across a variety of customers and industries. This allows you to rapidly gain exposure to diverse environments and challenges, quickly expanding your expertise. This is a chance to level up by solving increasingly sophisticated problems and becoming a go-to leader in a fast-moving space.

4. Architect Your Own Adventure 

When we say you’ll do the best work of your career, we mean it. With mentorship, collaboration, and upskilling resources, you can be great today while discovering what you want to be great at next. This is your chance to shape the role, and your career adventure, in a way that reflects who you are and where you want to go, all while building a portfolio of real-world examples.

5. Collaborate With the Brightest Minds in Tech

When you join Salesforce as a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’re not just getting a job, you’re joining a community of learners and builders who live for the “you’ll never believe what we just did” moments. Even a small win could be the key to unlocking a problem for another pod, and everyone is on a mission to help each other out. This culture of partnership means your sharpest technical instincts are met with an equally sharp team, all focused on a shared mission: to deliver real, tangible impact for our customers. 

It’s time to start building the career, and the world, you want to see. Make your next move your greatest yet. We’re looking for FDEs with an agent-first mindset and technical fluency who are solution-oriented and impact-driven. If that’s you, apply to our Forward Deployed Engineer opening or explore open roles at Salesforce today.