Staff ML & Agent Security Engineer

Salesforce; Washington; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a hands-on Member of Technical Staff in Machine Learning & Agent Security Engineering to contribute to our AI security platform. You will develop scalable AI services, apply agentic ML techniques, and own production systems from development through live operation.

The ideal candidate has strong Python software and security engineering background, experience with ML frameworks, and the ability to work across cloud environments to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software or ML engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building and operating production software, services, data-processing systems, or ML applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-based, distributed systems.
• Ability to work relatively independently within established technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and operate high-availability production AI and agentic systems, applying tool calling and state management in Python.
• Engineer high-throughput data-processing pipelines and automated security intelligence systems at Salesforce scale.
• Take end-to-end ownership of systems from implementation to live production operations, with strong telemetry and resilience.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

API design

Testing

CI/CD

Cloud computing

Data processing

Concurrency

Debugging

Documentation

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

XGBoost

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a hands-on Member of Technical Staff in Machine Learning & Agent Security Engineering to contribute to our AI security platform. You will develop scalable AI services, apply agentic ML techniques, and own production systems from development through live operation.

The ideal candidate has strong Python software and security engineering background, experience with ML frameworks, and the ability to work across cloud environments to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.