Senior AI Research Engineer

salesforce.com, inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce in Palo Alto is seeking engineers to build agentic AI systems that blend AI with human workflows, collaborating with software engineers, product managers and solution engineers to design, implement and iterate AI-driven solutions for customers.

Candidates should have strong Python, C++/Java, ML and hands-on experience deploying ML systems on Docker and cloud platforms, plus a track record delivering production-grade software in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering skills.
• Deep ML knowledge with implementation track record.
• Prioritize deep and strategic thinking.
• Dedication, patience and resilience to build exceptional product experience.
• Collaborative and win with teams.
• Proactive and bias to action, comfortable in fast-paced environment.
• Competitive coding winner (ACM-ICPC, etc).
• Experience in agentic AI, LLM area (YC backed startup).
• Programming & Systems: Strong Python; solid C++/Java experience.
• Build and ship production-grade software with AI as core.
• Design and orchestrate complex AI-agent systems.
• Contribute to shared system context for reliable AI operations.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, security, performance.
• Strong CS fundamentals; data structures, algorithms, system design.
• Experience building production-quality systems.
• Agentic / LLM Systems.
• Practical experience with LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Experience building end-to-end AI agents or AI-driven apps.
• Familiarity with prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems.
• Machine Learning & AI: hands-on with deep learning frameworks.
• Strong ML fundamentals.
• Experience training, eval, and inference pipelines.
• Infrastructure & Deployment: deploying ML systems on Docker and cloud.
• Familiarity with distributed training/inference and perf optimization.
• AI-first engineering approach.
• Experience using AI tools in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering to ensure reliable, secure outputs.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

ML

LLM systems

AI systems

Docker

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Salesforce in Palo Alto is seeking engineers to build agentic AI systems that blend AI with human workflows, collaborating with software engineers, product managers and solution engineers to design, implement and iterate AI-driven solutions for customers.

Candidates should have strong Python, C++/Java, ML and hands-on experience deploying ML systems on Docker and cloud platforms, plus a track record delivering production-grade software in fast-paced environments.