Principal AI/DS Engineer — Production-Grade Agentic Systems

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned software engineer to design and ship agentic AI foundations for database engineering. You will own end-to-end development across platforms, tooling, and production pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable automation.

The role demands hands-on experience with distributed systems, strong Python and Java skills, and a track record of delivering production software at scale. Collaboration and rigorous evaluation are valued.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Experience shipping production software at scale and knowledge of large-scale distributed databases or multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Strong mathematical and analytical reasoning for evaluating AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Own design and hands-on implementation of the agentic AI foundation for database engineering.
• Develop full-stack, full-lifecycle agentic engineering and workflow automation.
• Build knowledge graphs and agentic memory with unified evaluation and data curation.
• Establish guardrails and telemetry to keep agents grounded and reliable.

Skills

LLM orchestration

Python & Java

Distributed systems

Knowledge graphs

Agentic AI

Evaluation & guardrails

Tools

MLflow

Airflow

Trino

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned software engineer to design and ship agentic AI foundations for database engineering. You will own end-to-end development across platforms, tooling, and production pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable automation.

The role demands hands-on experience with distributed systems, strong Python and Java skills, and a track record of delivering production software at scale. Collaboration and rigorous evaluation are valued.