Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

Salesforce

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San Francisco, CAChicago, ILNew York, NY
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7 days ago
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Jan 20, 2027

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

JOB TITLE: Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering The Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering will join the Forward Deployed Engineering Team to lead a high-performing Agent Builder expert team. This role involves providing strategic and technical leadership to deliver Agentic solutions directly to customers. Key responsibilities include defining long-term strategies for Agentic AI deployments, establishing best practices for Model Context Protocol, inter-agent communication, and AI orchestration, and owning the Agentic Development Life Cycle. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in RAG, vector databases, search indexes, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture. You will work with foundational and frontier models to build production-grade systems within enterprise ecosystems. This role solves the technical challenge of scaling multi-agent intelligence and autonomous action design while ensuring data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices across global enterprise environments.

What you'll do

  • Lead a high-performing expert team to deliver Agentic AI solutions directly to customers.
  • Define the long-term strategy for Agentic AI deployments across various industries.
  • Establish best practices and reference architectures for multi-agent systems and AI orchestration.
  • Standardize the Agentic Development Life Cycle (ADLC) across all customer engagements.
  • Oversee project delivery to ensure agents meet customer needs and scale in production environments.
  • Evangelize the agentic architecture vision to internal stakeholders, strategic customers, and partners.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales leadership to shape the Agentic AI roadmap.
  • Oversee data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices in collaboration with security teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade applications or enterprise AI systems.
  • 5+ years of experience in leadership roles overseeing technical teams.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills to engage executive stakeholders on complex technical roadmaps.
  • Expertise in AI implementations including RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases.
  • Expert-level knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and asynchronous processing principles.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the LLM landscape, including specifications, capabilities, and use cases for frontier models.
  • Deep understanding of multi-agent orchestration, data-driven decisioning, and autonomous action design.
  • Ability to travel 30% of the time to customer sites.

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