Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research

Salesforce
California - Palo Alto / California - San Francisco2026-04-29Full time

About the job

Salesforce AI Research is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to incubate next-generation agentic AI platform. You will work with research scientists, software engineers, product managers and solution engineers closely to design, implement and iterate agentic AI systems with customers. 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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Minimum

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)

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.