Partner Technical Architect - Agentforce
About the role
Salesforce is hiring a hands-on Partner Technical Architect to help top SI partners build and ship production-grade Agentforce solutions at scale. The ideal candidate will work directly with Partner FDEs to turn ambiguous enterprise AI problems into working solutions, reference implementations, and evaluation harnesses, then use what they learn to raise quality and partner-led outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Prototype quickly to validate ideas, expose platform gaps, and unblock first-of-kind implementation risks.
- Create reference implementations, starter kits, demos, field kits, and evaluation harnesses that partners can fork, extend, and deploy.
- 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.
Requirements
- Shipped or seriously prototyped real software, agents, automations, internal tools, or technical demos.
- Learnt new platforms by building with them, not waiting for perfect documentation.
- Moved fast without losing production instincts around safety, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Naturally extracted patterns from one-off work and turned them into reusable assets for others.
- Built with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, workflow orchestration, or automation systems.
- Reasoned about multi-agent, human-in-the-loop, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Debugged agent behavior: traces, logs, failure modes, tool calls, bad context, bad data, latency, and user experience gaps.
- Understood prompt design, retrieval quality, evaluation, hallucination risk, guardrails, and cost/performance trade-offs.
- Communicated clearly with engineers, architects, product teams, partner leaders, and executive stakeholders.
- Thought systems thinking across APIs, data flows, identity, security, integration, observability, and operational handoff.
- Distinguished a platform gap, a configuration issue, a partner delivery issue, and a pattern worth codifying.
- Operated in regulated or complex enterprise environments where governance, trust, and delivery risk matter.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Strong engineering judgment.
- Applied AI fluency.
- Builder instincts.
- The ability to ramp quickly into the Salesforce platform.
Benefits
At Salesforce, we offer 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.
Pay
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.
Schedule
Full-time position.