Forward Deployed Engineer - Salesforce Agentforce | Consumer Lending
Location: McLean, VA
Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 per year
Industry: Financial Services / Consumer Lending
We are looking for a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to design, build and deploy Agentic AI solutions within a large-scale consumer lending environment. This is a highly technical role combining Salesforce Agentforce, Salesforce Development and Generative AI, working directly with business stakeholders to turn real operational challenges into production-ready AI solutions.
The Role:
You will be responsible for taking AI solutions from initial concept and prototype through to production, integrating Agentforce with lending platforms, enterprise systems and approved data sources.
Key responsibilities include:- Design and deploy AI agents using Salesforce Agentforce
- Configure agent actions, instructions, prompts, workflows and orchestration
- Develop solutions using Apex, LWC, Salesforce Flow, SOQL and Platform Events
- Implement Generative AI, RAG, tool calling, grounding and prompt engineering
- Integrate Salesforce with lending, banking and enterprise platforms
- Build and consume REST/SOAP APIsDevelop integrations using MuleSoft or similar platforms
- Implement human-in-the-loop workflows and approval checkpoints
- Test AI accuracy, reliability, security and performance
- Troubleshoot complex issues across Salesforce, AI services and integrations
- Take Agentic AI solutions from prototype through to production
What We're Looking For:- 5+ years of software engineering experienceStrong hands-on Salesforce development background
- Commercial implementation experience with Salesforce Agentforce
- Strong Apex, LWC, Flow and API experience
- Experience with Generative AI and Agentic AI architectures
- Knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, tool calling and AI evaluation
- Experience delivering enterprise integrations
- Git, CI/CD and automated testing experienceStrong stakeholder-facing and problem-solving skills
Experience within consumer lending, banking, credit unions or wider financial services is highly desirable.
Desirable Experience
Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (FSC)
Salesforce Data Cloud / Data 360 MuleSoftAutoRABITConsumer lending processes
Salesforce Agentforce Specialist certification
Salesforce Platform Developer certification
Previous delivery within banking or credit unions
This is an excellent opportunity for a Salesforce engineer who has moved into the Agentforce / Agentic AI space and wants to work on genuine enterprise AI solutions being deployed into production.
Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 per year
Location: McLean, VA
