> 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. # Forward Deployed Engineer Specialists (FDE) (Mid/Senior Level) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4bcc7e2a5d5bf3a5 Salesforce posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $178,900–$285,800 base, above the mid-level FDE median of $150,000 across 104 postings with pay. Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy agentic AI solutions in enterprise customer environments, owning technical components from architecture through production validation and observability. Read from the employer’s posting on November 13, 2026. - [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) $178,900–$285,800 Above the median - New York, NY - 3+ years - Travel up to 25% - Posted 2 days ago New Nov 11 Midpoint $232K, $82K above the median of 104 mid-level FDE postings. [Compare pay](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/mid-level) Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy agentic AI solutions in enterprise customer environments, owning technical components from architecture through production validation and observability. ## The work - **Kind of work**: Builds what the customer runs - **Time split**: Mostly building · - **Project stages**: Proof of concept, Implementation, Operations · - **Travel**: Up to 25% · - **Code**: Writes production code · - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Mid · - **Role**: Individual contributor · ## What they ask for - **Experience**: **3+ years** Software engineering or technical delivery experience (Mid level) **6 to 10 years** Software engineering or technical delivery experience (Senior level; stated range 6–10 years) - **Background**: Software engineering, Implementation and data engineering - **Location**: **New York, NY** - **Tools**: Agentforce, MCP, Cursor, Claude, Snowflake, Databricks, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Salesforce Data 360 ## The job description from Salesforce *To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.* Job Category Software Engineering Job Details ### About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. 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. Job Description We are Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer too, driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good, you've come to the right place. **About the Role** **Production experience required. Builder mindset non-negotiable.** Salesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers — experienced **Technical Builders** who design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly inside enterprise customer environments. You'll work as part of a delivery team, partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist (**Strategic Builder **- a customer-facing advisor who shapes AI strategy and drives adoption) to co-build solutions that go live in production environments from day one. Engagements range from a single large strategic customer to multiple accounts simultaneously. The common thread is real code, real environments, and measurable business impact. This work spans configuration, customization, and full-stack deployment — shipping solutions customers depend on. **The Builder Experience** - **AI-Powered Development:** Ship real customer solutions, supported by best-in-class AI tools — Cursor, Claude, and Salesforce coding products like Vibes — embedded into your day-to-day workflow. - **Collaborative Delivery:** You'll work alongside Senior Forward Deployed Engineers and a Deployment Strategist. You'll own real components, benefit from structured mentorship from people who've shipped agentic systems at scale, and have a clear path to leading complex deliveries yourself. - **Frontier Access: **Our agentic AI platform is evolving in real time. You'll work on capabilities most engineers won't touch for months — spanning Agentforce, data, platform, Slack and headless architectures and your field insight will feed directly to the product teams building them. - **Continuous Innovation:** You'll be expected to stay at the forefront, experimenting with emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks, and sharing what you learn with your team and customers. ### What You'll Actually Be Building - Develop AI agents and experiences that take real actions for real organizations. Our solutions are in production at some of the largest enterprises on the planet. The work matters because the customers depend on it. - Design agent intelligence: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integration with customer systems, leveraging our Agentic AI platform and current LLM techniques. - Design secure authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth, SSO, enterprise identity providers, and API gateways. - Own technical components end-to-end: from architecture choice to deployed, validated, and observable in production. - Build and integrate data pipelines on Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms. Model the data, ship the pipeline, validate the output - Build and maintain agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes. - Contribute to proofs-of-concept and MVPs that move from sketch to deployable in days, not months. - Co-build alongside customers and partners, sharing best practices and enablement as you go. Leaving teams more capable after each engagement than before. - Surface platform gaps, edge cases, and field insights to senior Engineers and the product team. Your real-world experience is the product feedback loop. - Partner with the Deployment Strategist in your pod to translate customer business challenges into agentic solutions that actually ship. ### You're Our Forward Deployed Engineer If… - You have 3+ years (6-10 years for Senior levels) of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with at least one production system you'd be proud to walk us through - ideally in an AI tech stack, full-stack development, or working with frontier models ### You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field - You have prior customer-facing technical delivery experience (consulting, professional services, or forward deployed engineering) — this is a requirement, not a nice-to-have. - You're fluent in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex — and willing to add to that list as the work demands. - You bring deep hands-on expertise with Slack platform architecture: integrating Slack APIs (Web, Events, Bolt framework), managing complex enterprise authentication flows, and building/extending Slackbot systems as both MCP Clients and Servers. - You've been hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering. You can explain why a prompt failed and what you'd change. - You understand data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns deeply enough to design them, not just consume them. - You can hold your own in a room with sales teams and customer architects. - You ship quality code and evaluate AI outputs with engineering rigor. - You actively tinker with the evolving AI/data landscape — piloting new tools, experimenting with new models, and staying genuinely curious about what's coming next. - You thrive in the group chat that's building something, not just talking about it. - You're excited to travel ~25% of the time, working directly alongside customers. ### Nice-to-Haves - Salesforce platform experience or certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist) - Slack Certified Developer or experience deploying enterprise-grade Slack apps across multi-workspace (Enterprise Grid) environments - Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) and orchestration patterns - Hands-on with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) - Experience across specialist AI delivery areas: data engineering, platform architecture, or headless deployments 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. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options. Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. 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 $148,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. - [View the posting at Salesforce](https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/New-York---New-York/Forward-Deployed-Engineer-Specialists--FDE---Mid-Senior-Level-_JR352720) ## FDE jobs in New York metro 910 postings · 427 companies · read Nov 13, 2026 Median **$198,350** · middle half $167,500–$232,388 - [Rank these jobs by fit to you](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F4bcc7e2a5d5bf3a5&placement=list) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer Specialists (FDE) (Mid/Senior Level)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4bcc7e2a5d5bf3a5) **Salesforce** · Public · 5000+ people **$178,900–$285,800** · New York, NY Posted 2 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Generative AI, Google Cloud, Healthcare](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/39e8b118106e6d5e) **Google** · Public · 5000+ people **$174,000–$252,000** · Chicago, IL +1 Posted today New ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (GenAI, AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a18596fa79441ed8) **Provectus** **$180,000–$250,000** · New York, NY · Hybrid Posted today New ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (NYC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/784d93851b4b4f4b) **Rox** · Series A · 100–200 people **$180,000–$200,000** · New York, NY · Hybrid Posted today New ### [Forward Deployed AI Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a255cc6d726eec7f) **Crowe** **$102,400–$204,100** · Chicago, IL +36 · Hybrid Posted yesterday New ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ecba7c7dee12d44) **Amazon (incl AWS)** · Public · 5000+ people **$143,700–$223,600** · Seattle, WA +4 Posted yesterday New ### [Senior Software Engineer (Legal), CoCounsel FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/785602eaba12acb3) **Thomson Reuters** · Public · 5000+ people **$102,200–$218,600** · Frisco, TX +2 · Hybrid Posted 2 days ago New ### [Solution Architect/Forward Deployed Engineer (AI & Data Web Applications)_Contractor](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dba8229d04cbabc4) **Hiflylabs** · 200–500 people Pay not posted · Jersey City, NJ Posted 2 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f460691bfd21f9b0) **Obin AI** · Seed · 10–50 people **$200,000–$300,000** · New York, NY Posted 2 days ago New - [Show all 910 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=nyc-metro) Hiring at Salesforce and want this page changed or removed? 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