Salesforce Forward Deployed AI Engineer
A customer-embedded, hands-on program: own the journey from an ambiguous customer problem to a trusted, adopted agentic solution — scope the mission, build Agentforce 360 agents grounded in Data 360, connect them through AIforce and MCP, and ship to production with Trust Layer governance, evaluation evidence and adoption metrics.
What does a Salesforce Forward Deployed AI Engineer do?
They embed with the customer and own the agentic build end to end: scope the mission with sponsors, design against Salesforce Well-Architected, build Agentforce 360 agents grounded in Data 360, connect them through AIforce, MCP and MuleSoft, and launch to production under the Trust Layer and Salesforce Guardian with evaluation evidence and adoption metrics. Most Salesforce AI courses stop at a demo agent. This program ends only when you can ship an agentic solution a customer runs in production — and prove it is safe, governed and paying back.
- •Sponsor, stakeholder & process discovery
- •Agent use-case scoring & Flex Credit economics
- •Data readiness & grounding assessment
- •Guardrails, success metrics & acceptance criteria
- •Agent Builder topics, actions & Agent Script
- •Prompt Builder grounded in Data 360
- •Flows, Apex actions, MuleSoft & MCP tools
- •Claudeforce, Slackforce & Coworker enablement
- •Testing Center, evals & red-teaming
- •Trust Layer, Guardian & Agent Fabric registration
- •DevOps Center release, rollback & hypercare
- •Adoption, Command Center & 90-day value review
The platform went agent-first. Someone has to ship it in production.
What this means for your career: every Agentforce rollout now needs someone who can select the use case, build and ground the agent, wire interoperability, and prove it safe — forward deployed AI engineers who ship agents into customer production with evaluation and adoption evidence command a premium over admin-only or developer-only profiles.
Built for people moving into customer-embedded agentic delivery.
Prior experience: basic programming or Salesforce admin experience helps. The program builds platform, Flow and Apex foundations before Agentforce engineering, Data 360 grounding and production delivery.
Build the agent — and ship it in the customer's production.
Twelve sections. 50 modules. Vision-lock → Build → Ground → Connect → Prove → Launch.
Salesforce Platform & the 2026 Stack for FDEs
Platform Configuration Essentials
Apex, LWC & Integration Essentials
Sales & Service Cloud for Agent Delivery
Agentforce 360 Engineering
Data 360 Grounding
AIforce, MCP & Interoperability
Evaluation, Testing & Observability
Trust, Governance & Agent Fabric
Forward Deployed Delivery — Vision-Lock to Production
Squad Residency
Capstone, Certifications & Career
25+ Salesforce & AI tools, one production project.
You don't watch videos. You ship software.
Three full-production projects, each threaded through the entire curriculum. By the project, you've built the whole stack around them.
Service Cloud agent on Agentforce
Build an end-to-end Service Cloud workspace — Omni-Channel intake, Flow Builder routing, and an Agentforce agent grounded on Data Cloud + Atlas Reasoning that summarises cases, drafts replies, and closes tier-1 tickets without a human in the loop.
Sales Cloud + Einstein revenue copilot
Ship an opportunity-to-cash flow on Sales Cloud with Einstein Prediction Builder forecasting close probability, an Agentforce SDR agent that drafts emails and books meetings, and a CPQ flow that configures quotes against live Data Cloud signals.
Data Cloud unification stream
Stream events from MuleSoft, Heroku, and external apps into Data Cloud, unify identities into a 360° profile, and auto-trigger Marketing Cloud journeys plus an Atlas Reasoning agent that explains every segment shift to ops.
Your AI Salesforce agent in a controlled project environment.
Pick a real partner workflow. Deploy a production agent into a Salesforce org — Agentforce + Atlas Reasoning + Data Cloud — that handles cases, drafts updates, and accelerates service & sales resolution.
Taught by engineers who shipped agentic AI to production.
Manikanta is the founder of Digital Edify and brings 15 years of enterprise platform architecture from AT&T, Salesforce, Cox Communications, and Broadcom — where he led Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Data Cloud rollouts for Fortune-500 banks, telcos, and insurers. Most recently he architected production Agentforce + Atlas Reasoning deployments that replaced traditional triage tiers with autonomous case-handling.
His classes get you two things other programs don't give you: a founding architect who's shipped enterprise Salesforce + AI from inside the Fortune 500, and a curriculum rewritten every release — so when hiring managers ask about Data Cloud harmonisation, Agentforce sub-flows, or Atlas Reasoning orchestration, you've already built it. M.S. in Engineering, Purdue University.
Ravi is Chief Technologist at Digital Edify, where he leads the Agentforce and Salesforce engineering practice. After 8 years building production Apex, LWC, and integration pipelines on Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, he stepped into the Chief Technologist seat to wire Agentforce, the Atlas Reasoning Engine, and Data Cloud into the way revenue and service teams actually work — autonomous agents that resolve cases, qualify pipeline, and stitch together Sales, Service, Marketing, and Data Cloud without humans being the integration layer.
His Agentforce modules are built from real production rollouts, not slide decks. Expect to leave with working Agentforce Builder agents grounded on Data Cloud, Flow Builder orchestrations, OmniStudio guided flows, and Apex + LWC components that recruiters can actually verify in your dev org. Ten years on the Salesforce stack, eight of them shipping in production — Hyderabad-based, hands-on, and known for the unglamorous integration work everyone else skips.
What Salesforce employers say about Digital Edify grads.
Real feedback from talent leaders at Salesforce Summit / Crest Partners and the firms hiring our Salesforce + Agentforce graduates.
An Agent‑Ready credential, not a participation trophy.
READY
2026
Roles this program prepares you for.
What employers should see in your portfolio: that you can take an agentic mission from vision-lock to production — score the use case, build and ground the agent in Data 360, connect it through AIforce and MCP, evaluate and red-team it, evidence Trust Layer and Agent Fabric governance, release through DevOps Center, and prove value at the 90-day review.
Your first Salesforce offer isn't a lottery ticket. It's a built process.
A portfolio, not a graveyard.
Guidance on building a GitHub that showcases your unlocked packages, Agentforce + Atlas Reasoning project, Flow Builder flows, Apex + LWC components, and a working dev org link — reviewed 1:1, not via template.
Rewrite, don't proofread.
A one-page resume rebuilt around the Salesforce clouds you implemented (Sales, Service, Marketing, Data Cloud), the Agentforce agent you deployed, and the business outcome. Reviewed by engineers who've read 10,000+ resumes.
Where most opportunities actually live.
Profile tuning plus direct warm introductions into the Salesforce Summit + Crest Partner network — Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, Slalom, Persistent, IBM, Wipro. You leave with recruiter contacts, not a generic "good luck."
Hundreds of Salesforce careers launched — here are eight.
Come chat with us — over coffee, or over Zoom.
One flagship campus in Hyderabad, plus online Salesforce classes running on Indian and US timezones.
Questions we actually get — answered honestly.
Straight answers on prerequisites, the platform, certifications, and placement. If something's missing, book a 20-minute advisor call — no slides, no pitch.
Do I need a CS background or prior CRM/Sales experience?
Do I get a real Salesforce dev org to build on?
Are Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer I & II covered?
Will I actually build with Agentforce, Atlas Reasoning, and Data Cloud?
How is the learning workload structured?
Is placement support really 1:1, and which companies hire?
Online, weekend, or on-campus?
What if I fall behind, or can't continue mid-class?
Still have a question? Talk to an advisor — no slides, no pitch.
One million AI‑native professionals by 2027.
Let's put you in that number.
Book a 20‑minute advisor call. We'll map your current role to the right program, talk honestly about timelines, and walk you through a real class's project.








