Principal Member of Technical Staff - AI Research

Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

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.

The Experience

With your strong technical competence, strategic thinking and customer engagement, you will innovate at the frontier of the field, having the opportunity to create new solutions and define new categories of product with meaningful impact to Salesforce customers and beyond.

You're Our Person If...

Has exceptional engineering skills.

Has deep ML knowledge with meaningful implementation track records.

Prioritize deep and strategic thinking.

Has dedication, patience and resilience to build exceptional product experience.

Collaborative and win with teams.

Proactive and bias to action, comfortable in fast-pacing environment.

Competitive coding winner (ACM-ICPC, etc).

Startup founders in agentic AI, LLM, area (e.g., YC backed startup)

Programming & Systems:

Strong proficiency in Python; solid experience with C++ and/or Java

Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.

Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.

Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance

Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)

Experience building production-quality systems

Agentic / LLM Systems

Practical experience with LLMs and agentic workflows (tool use, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning)

Experience building end-to-end AI agents or complex AI-driven applications

Familiarity with prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems

Machine Learning & AI

Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks

Strong understanding of ML fundamentals

Experience implementing and debugging model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines

Infrastructure & Deployment

Experience deploying ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Familiarity with distributed training or inference and performance optimization

A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows

Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.