Staff ML & Agent Security Engineer - Production AI

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a hands-on Member of Technical Staff focused on Machine Learning and Agent Security Engineering. You will architect and operate high-availability AI systems and agentic workflows, applying tool calling and state management in Python across public clouds.

The role emphasizes building scalable security intelligence pipelines, operationalizing ML models, and owning end-to-end production operations with robust telemetry and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning engineering, or related development experience.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Python.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, APIs, testing, debugging, code reviews, and maintainable software design.
• Experience building and operating production software, services, data-processing systems, or ML applications.
• Experience solving implementation-level challenges involving scale, performance, reliability, data volume, or concurrency.
• Practical understanding of machine learning fundamentals and experience applying ML using common libraries or frameworks.
• Familiarity with Generative AI and LLM technologies and how they can be incorporated into software applications.
• Experience working with cloud-based, distributed, or data-intensive applications.
• Understanding of software development practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational debugging.
• Ability to troubleshoot software using logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and operate high-availability production AI and LLM agentic systems across public clouds.
• Deliver reliable, well-tested AI services and APIs for agentic patterns.
• Engineer high-throughput data-processing pipelines and automated security intelligence systems.

Skills

Python

ML fundamentals

Cloud-based apps

Observability & debugging

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

XGBoost

Ray

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a hands-on Member of Technical Staff focused on Machine Learning and Agent Security Engineering. You will architect and operate high-availability AI systems and agentic workflows, applying tool calling and state management in Python across public clouds.

The role emphasizes building scalable security intelligence pipelines, operationalizing ML models, and owning end-to-end production operations with robust telemetry and performance improvements.