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Job Summary:
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, dedicated to driving customer success through innovation and technology. The Account Solution Engineer will serve as a technical trusted advisor for federal missions, focusing on designing and demonstrating solutions that enhance government operations and citizen services.
Responsibilities:
• Lead deep technical and business discovery sessions with federal stakeholders to uncover mission gaps, pain points, and legacy bottlenecks to scope agentic solution use cases, translate outcomes/ROI into an executable architecture, demonstration/proof-of-concept (POC) and activation plan
• Build high-impact demonstrations and POCs on the platform. This includes configuring Agentforce to demonstrate how autonomous AI agents can automate federal workflows and citizen services.
• Deliver world-class product demonstrations that tell a compelling story, showing how Salesforce solves specific agency missions needed to achieve the functional requirements of the customer.
• Create end-to-end technical architectures and solutions that integrate Salesforce’s Agentic Enterprise Platform with the unique security and enterprise architecture needed to achieve the technical win.
• Design and lead hands-on technical workshops and "Deep Dives" for agency IT leads and Enterprise Architects.
• Confidently present technical solutions to GS/Executive-level leadership and political appointees, simplifying complex tech into mission outcomes.
• Serve as the technical lead for Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) responses, ensuring technical accuracy and security compliance.
• Drive activation by partnering with customers on agent definition, configuration, and deployment strategy to accelerate production readiness
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities by intaking both process and technical requirements to remove friction and accelerate activation
• Build reusable accelerators (demo environments, components, POC assets, playbooks, best practices) and enable others to scale delivery
• Drive Voice of the Customer into Product; inform messaging/plays with Product Marketing
• Leverage modern 3rd-party development tools and AI-assisted coding to rapidly build and iterate on platform configurations, front-end experiences and custom components.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years customer-facing solution/technical architecture (pre-sales, consulting, implementation) with increasing scope/influence.
• Degree in Computer Science required (B.S., Master's, or Ph.D.)
• Proficiency of Salesforce Core (Public Sector Solutions, Sales, Service, Experience Cloud) and the Data 360/Agentforce stack.
• Agentic + AI fluency: practical understanding of LLMs, RAG/grounding, evaluation concepts, and how agentic systems behave in production (safety, reliability, governance).
• Experience with agentic engineering tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Agentforce Vibes, etc).
• The ability to run technical & business discovery to define agentic solution use cases, success metrics, and a feasible execution plan.
• Executive + technical communication: able to lead whiteboards and communicate with developers and C-suite with equal fluency, and translate architecture to outcomes/ROI.
• Deep technical command of multi-tier architectures, including relational database design (SQL, SOQL), schema modeling, and the nuances of high-scale web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/LWC).
• Growth mindset; willingness to continually sharpen technical/advisory skills through required enablement, labs, courses, and certifications.
Preferred:
• Strong Salesforce engineering depth; Apex and Lightning Web Components (or equivalent) and comfort operating across the SDLC.
• SQL and/or Python proficiency and comfort with modern cloud data platforms/analytics tooling (Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery; Tableau/Looker/Power BI).
• Experience with other agent platforms (e.g., Gemini/Agentspace or similar) and broader AI automation implementations.
• Consumption/business modeling with understanding of consumption levers and can map anticipated consumption spend from architecture/usage patterns.
• Proven experience in modern application development; specifically, a working knowledge of Java, Python, or Node.js, and an understanding of modern API patterns such as REST, GraphQL, and Pub/Sub.
• Understanding of the Federal Civilian market, procurement lifecycle and the nuances of the public sector mission.
Company:
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.