Salesforce

Research Scientist – Salesforce AI Research

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Palo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $114,200 - $306,600 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonPyTorch

About the role

  • Own and pursue ambitious research and engineering goals aligned with strategic initiatives.
  • Develop novel models and technical solutions for real-world, large-scale problems within the enterprise ecosystem.
  • Design, build, and maintain production-ready services, including scalable APIs and agentic evaluators.
  • Collaborate across a strike-team of researchers and engineers to deliver complex projects that directly impact our core AI products and customer experiences.

Requirements

  • Ph.D., Master’s, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
  • A strong publication record in top AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP) OR a proven track record of shipping AI products to real users.
  • Demonstrated expertise in one or more core focus areas: LLMs, Agentic Systems, Computer Vision/Multimodal, Speech Intelligence, or Research Engineering.
  • Experience with Python and deep learning libraries/platforms (e.g., PyTorch, Jax, or DeepSpeed).
  • Proven ability to implement, operate, and deliver results via innovation at a large scale.
  • Full-time industry experience in deep learning research and/or product development (preferred).
  • Experience training and evaluating large-scale multimodal models or speech models, including techniques for alignment, safety, and latency optimization (preferred).
  • Experience with production cloud deployments (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), or high-performance systems (MLOps) (preferred).
  • Strong programming skills, with a competitive background (e.g., ACM-ICPC or significant open-source contributions) or experience in UI/graphic design (preferred).
  • Thoughtful about AI impacts, trust, and ethics (preferred).
  • Outstanding communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills (preferred).
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Pythondeep learningLLMsAgentic SystemsComputer VisionMultimodalSpeech IntelligenceResearch Engineeringalignment techniqueslatency optimization
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginnovationthoughtfulness about AI impactstrustethics
Certifications
Ph.D.Master’s degreeBachelor’s degree