Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

About Futureforce University Recruiting

The Futureforce University Recruiting program focuses on attracting, retaining and developing talent. Interns and new graduates work on real projects that shape how the business runs, with a chance to make a tangible impact on the company's future. Recruits can collaborate with employees across offices worldwide. The program includes job shadowing, mentorship, talent development courses and more.

About the Role

Salesforce is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Intern to join a team that builds and deploys AI agent solutions for government, nonprofit and education organizations. You will work alongside Senior Forward Deployed Engineers and a Deployment Strategist, shadowing their customer work and owning projects that can make a difference for those customers. Structured mentorship is built into the program.

The Intern Experience

• AI-powered development: Build with tools such as Cursor, Claude and Salesforce coding products such as Vibes.
• Mentorship: Learn from engineers who have shipped AI systems at scale.
• Behind-the-scenes access: Sit in on customer working sessions and project reviews to see how real solutions are scoped, built and delivered.
• Frontier access: Work on Agentforce and Salesforce's evolving AI platform, with your feedback going directly to product teams.
• Curiosity encouraged: Try new AI tools, models and frameworks, and share what you learn.

What You Will Do

• Shadow Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Strategists in customer meetings and working sessions to learn how business problems become AI solutions.
• Contribute to building AI agents that take real actions for real organizations.
• Write and test prompts, and improve how agents reason and use tools.
• Own an intern project, such as a tool, prototype or internal accelerator, that may be used in customer solutions.
• Help build data pipelines and connect systems using Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake or Databricks.
• Help build dashboards that track agent performance.
• Build proofs-of-concept that move quickly from idea to working demo.
• Present your work and share ideas with senior engineers and the product team, culminating in a capstone project presentation at the end of the 12-week program.

Nice-to-Haves

• Salesforce Trailhead badges or certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer I, Agentforce Specialist).
• Exposure to agent frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery.
• Interest in public sector, higher education or nonprofit work.