Production AI Systems Engineer - LLM-Powered

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce AI Labs in San Francisco seeks an experienced engineer to own substantial backend systems for agent development. You will design, deploy, and operate systems that blend AI reasoning with deterministic execution, ensuring reliability and scalable performance.

You will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to shape product direction, drive early adoption, and evolve the offering toward general availability at Salesforce scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with LLM-powered systems and production deployments.
• Ability to design for concurrency, state, retries, and partial failures.
• Proven track record shipping backend services from design to production.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that learn from demonstrations and combine AI reasoning with deterministic execution.
• Develop recovery and verification capabilities for adaptation and human intervention.
• Maintain backend services with robust workflow state management and secure access.
• Create evaluations and diagnostics to measure success and explain failures.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

LLM-powered systems

Job description

Salesforce AI Labs in San Francisco seeks an experienced engineer to own substantial backend systems for agent development. You will design, deploy, and operate systems that blend AI reasoning with deterministic execution, ensuring reliability and scalable performance.

You will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to shape product direction, drive early adoption, and evolve the offering toward general availability at Salesforce scale.