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Director/Sr. Director Expert Agent Builder, Forward Deployed Engineering
Salesforce INC · 🇺🇸 3 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Salesforce INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Forward Deployed Engineer” (Software Developers) in NJ: $180k–$245k, median $211k. Most were filed at wage level II (43%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Sales Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. About Salesforce: We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place. About the Role: We are seeking a technically adept and innovative Agent Builder Leader to join our Forward Deployed Engineering Team. You will lead a high performing Agent Builder expert team to deliver Agentic solutions directly with customers. Your primary responsibility will be to provide strategic and technical leadership, fostering innovation and cultivate a culture focused on continuous improvement. As a key member of the Agentforce leadership team, you will define the standards, and operating model that allow Agentic AI capabilities, directly influencing the product roadmap for agentic adoption across our customer base. Your Impact: • Strategic Leadership: Define the long-term strategy for Agentic AI deployments across industries. • Drive Multi-Agent Intelligence: Establish best practices and reference architectures for Model Context Protocol (MCP), inter-agent communication, and AI orchestration within multi-agent systems. • Own Agentic Development Life Cycle (ADLC): Standardize ADLC across all the engagements. Oversee project delivery and ensure the deployed agents meet customer needs while scaling robustly in enterprise production environments. • Internal and External Thought Leadership: Evangelize Salesforce’s agentic architecture vision internally and with strategic customers, industry partners, and ecosystem developers. • Operational Excellence: Build a high-performing team capable of delivering enterprise-ready, production-grade agentic systems. • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Sales leadership to shape the strategy and execution of Agentic AI solutions. • Governance and Security Stewardship: Oversee policies for data privacy, and compliance. Partner with internal security and legal teams to enforce responsible AI practices globally. Required Qualifications: • 10+ years of experience in building and scaling enterprise-grade applications or enterprise AI systems, including 5+ years in leadership roles overseeing technical teams. • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to influence and engage executive stakeholders on complex technical roadmaps with both technical and non-technical teams. • Expertise in AI implementations, including RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases, specifically for grounding Agentforce solutions with enterprise data. • Expert-level knowledge of distri