Forward Deployed Engineer
InformaticaResponsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, validation, and observability of agentic AI solutions in enterprise customer environments.
- Design agent intelligence, prompts, reasoning, tool calls, and integrations with customer systems.
- Build and integrate data pipelines using Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms.
- Lead PoCs and MVPs from concept to deployable production solutions in collaboration with customers and partners.
- Track deployment health and business outcomes through agent performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
- Surface platform gaps and field insights to product teams, mentor junior engineers, and enable customer and partner teams.
- Partner with Deployment Strategists to translate customer business challenges into production-ready agentic solutions.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering or technical delivery experience with multiple production systems to demonstrate.
- Extensive customer-facing technical delivery experience in consulting, professional services, or forward deployed engineering.
- Fluency in at least two of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering, plus expert-level data modeling, API, and integration-pattern knowledge.
- Ability to lead technical discussions with customer architects and executive stakeholders.
- Fluency in English and at least one of German or French, spoken and written.
- Preferred qualifications include Salesforce platform certifications, familiarity with LangChain or LlamaIndex, cloud data platform expertise, and experience in data engineering, platform architecture, or headless deployments.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers benefits and resources intended to support balance and employee well-being; the role involves approximately 25% travel and direct work alongside customers.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com