Account Solution Engineer - Federal Civilian (All Levels)
Salesforce · McLean, VA · 3 days ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$113k–$211k/yrFull-time
About the role
Be part of Salesforce’s high-energy Federal Public Sector Solution Engineering (SE) team, where your technical expertise meets a higher purpose. In this role, you aren't just selling software - you are a mission-critical partner in improving how government serves its citizens.
Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of digital transformation. You are a customer-facing technical trusted advisor who will support vital federal missions by designing, building and demonstrating how our Agentic Government Cloud solutions solve the government’s most complex challenges.
Role Description
- 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
- Create 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.
- 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
- 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.).
- 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).
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
- Promised 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.