> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Partner Technical Architect - Agentforce Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d3316c6c5777485 Salesforce posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Chicago, IL and 3 more, at $172,500–$285,800 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Salesforce seeks a hands-on Partner Technical Architect to help top SI partners build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions at scale. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) First seen May 27, 2026 · open on Workday as of Nov 8, 2026 **$172,500–$285,800** *annualized* Chicago, IL +3 Full-time Salesforce seeks a hands-on Partner Technical Architect to help top SI partners build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions at scale. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F0d3316c6c5777485&placement=top) - [View posting at Salesforce](https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/Illinois---Chicago/Partner-Technical-Architect---Agentforce_JR343933) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $173K–$286K Above the median Midpoint $229K · median $190K This job $173K to $286K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Chicago, IL · New York, NY · +2 more. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Salesforce is hiring a hands-on Partner Technical Architect to help top SI partners build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions at scale. In this builder role you will work directly with Partner FDEs to turn ambiguous enterprise AI problems into working solutions, reference implementations, and evaluation harnesses, then use what you learn to raise quality and partner-led outcomes. The best candidate is someone who can build, debug, explain trade-offs, and then package what they learned so many partner teams learn from it. Salesforce and Agentforce experience are valuable, but they are not the whole profile. We are looking first for strong engineering judgment, applied AI fluency, builder instincts, and the ability to ramp quickly into the Salesforce platform. Salesforce is hiring a hands-on **Partner Technical Architect** to help top SI partners build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions at scale. In this builder role you will work directly with **Partner FDEs** to turn ambiguous enterprise AI problems into working solutions, reference implementations, and evaluation harnesses, then use what you learn to raise quality and partner-led outcomes. The best candidate is someone who can build, debug, explain trade-offs, and then package what they learned so many partner teams learn from it. Salesforce and Agentforce experience are valuable, but they are not the whole profile. We are looking first for strong engineering judgment, applied AI fluency, builder instincts, and the ability to ramp quickly into the Salesforce platform. ### Key Responsibilities: - Prototype quickly to validate ideas, expose platform gaps, and unblock first-of-kind implementation risks. - Build reference implementations, starter kits, demos, field kits, and evaluation harnesses that partners can fork, extend, and deploy. - Convert field lessons into durable reusable assets: code, diagrams, checklists, decision trees, implementation notes, and architecture guidance. - Review partner Agentforce architectures for agent design, retrieval strategy, tooling, guardrails, observability, cost, security, and production readiness. - Coach **Partner FDEs** and architects through design clinics, office hours, portfolio reviews, and targeted technical walkthroughs. - Translate recurring field blockers into clear product and engineering feedback. - Help partners connect technical architecture choices to delivery quality, customer outcomes, and consumption economics. ### What We're Looking For: ### Builder Profile - You have shipped or seriously prototyped real software, agents, automations, internal tools, or technical demos. - You can show your work: GitHub repos, demo apps, notebooks, architecture docs, eval harnesses, demo orgs, open-source contributions, or equivalent artifacts. - You learn new platforms by building with them, not by waiting for perfect documentation. - You can move fast without losing production instincts around safety, reliability, observability, and maintainability. - You naturally extract patterns from one-off work and turn them into reusable assets for others. ### Applied AI And Agentic Systems - Experience building with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, workflow orchestration, or automation systems. - Ability to reason about multi-agent, human-in-the-loop, and enterprise integration patterns. - Comfort debugging agent behavior: traces, logs, failure modes, tool calls, bad context, bad data, latency, and user experience gaps. - Practical understanding of prompt design, retrieval quality, evaluation, hallucination risk, guardrails, and cost/performance trade-offs. ### Enterprise Architecture Judgment - Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, architects, product teams, partner leaders, and executive stakeholders. - Strong systems thinking across APIs, data flows, identity, security, integration, observability, and operational handoff. - Strong product sense: you can distinguish a platform gap, a configuration issue, a partner delivery issue, and a pattern worth codifying. - Comfort operating in regulated or complex enterprise environments where governance, trust, and delivery risk matter. ### Preferred Experience - Hands-on Salesforce, Agentforce, Data Cloud, Apex, Flow, LWC, MuleSoft, or multi-cloud architecture experience is preferred. - Salesforce certifications are helpful, but not required if you can demonstrate strong builder evidence and rapid platform learning. - We value candidates who can learn the Salesforce stack quickly and translate broader engineering/AI experience into partner-ready Agentforce patterns. - Experience working with system integrators, partner delivery teams, or complex enterprise implementation programs. - Published technical work: open-source projects, internal platform docs, talks, blog posts, or reusable architecture patterns. - Experience creating maturity models, readiness checks, production-readiness scorecards, or technical review frameworks. - Familiarity with consumption economics, agent cost modeling, TCO, or outcome-based delivery models. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and *be your best*, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can *do your best*. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. 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More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. 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