Forward Deployment Engineer

Job Description

Execute scoped initiatives across the AI and platform roadmap, from discovery and proof of concept through testing, production rollout, and hypercare.

? Build and integrate AI-enabled workflows, agents, and tools across Salesforce, MuleSoft, data platforms, finance applications, and CXO processes.

? Implement governed access patterns, including permissioning, data classification, human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and approval-gated writes.

? Design and implement integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, queues, middleware, and reusable API client patterns.

? Deliver prototypes and technical spikes quickly, then harden successful solutions for security, scalability, maintainability, and supportability.

? Improve operational readiness through structured logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, error handling, retries, dashboards, and runbooks.

? Participate in technical discovery, estimation, code reviews, testing, release planning, incident support, and retrospective improvement.

? Document solution designs, data flows, integration decisions, operational procedures, and known limitations so others can adopt and support the work.

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Skills and Requirements

Typically 2-4 years of professional experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, integration engineering, automation engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

? Experience taking software or automation from concept through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

? Working knowledge of AI agent architecture, AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool-calling patterns, LLM applications, prompt workflows, evaluation approaches, and responsible enterprise AI practices.

? Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Apex, or C#.

? Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and working with JSON, authentication, webhooks, and asynchronous or event-driven patterns.

? Familiarity with source control, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SQL, data mapping, and cross-system troubleshooting. ? Experience with Salesforce, MuleSoft, NetSuite, Quickbase, Workday, Splunk, Datadog, or comparable enterprise platforms.

? Experience building or operating AI agents, LLM applications, RAG systems, prompt workflows, evaluation pipelines, or agent tool integrations.

? Claude certification or demonstrated experience using Claude for enterprise engineering and automation use cases.

? Familiarity with MCP, tool-calling patterns, OAuth, secrets management, data-loss prevention, or AI security controls.

? Experience with event streaming, message queues, data lakes, distributed integrations, financial systems, CRM, or customer-support workflows.