Research Scientist – Salesforce AI Research
Salesforce
PythonPyTorchTensorflow
AI Researcher
Handshake
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $375,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PyTorch
About the role
- Be the Lab’s First Call: act as point of contact for researchers at advanced AI labs and build trust-based relationships
- Scope and launch new research-driven initiatives: partner with labs to uncover unarticulated data and evaluation needs across reasoning, multi-agent systems, and tool use
- Prototype and bring new offerings to market: design new data types, spin up pilots with engineering and ops, and collaborate with business teams to scale offerings
- Work within Handshake AI: leverage the largest early-career network to build human data products and evaluations at scale
Requirements
- AI/ML Research Depth: conducted meaningful research (academia or industry); published at top venues or shipped production
- Strategic, customer-obsessed mindset: engage technical buyers and senior researchers; uncover pain points and translate into action
- Builder’s DNA: rapid prototyping, comfortable between research, product, and GTM; ability to ship
- Technical fluency: debug models, evaluate outputs, experience with PyTorch or JAX, understand modern ML stacks
- Extra credit: experience with RL, agent modeling, or AI alignment
- Extra credit: familiarity with data-centric AI, synthetic data generation, or human-in-the-loop systems
- Extra credit: understanding challenges in scaling foundation models (training stability, safety, inference efficiency)
- Extra credit: contributions to open-source AI libraries or research tooling
- Extra credit: interest in societal impact, deployment ethics, and governance of frontier models
