
AI Engineer, Agent Systems
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $172,500 - $260,100 per year
About the role
- Design and build AI agent systems, including agent lifecycle management, orchestration, and execution control.
- Develop scalable pipelines for tool invocation, agent planning, memory, and state management.
- Collaborate with AI researchers to operationalize research outputs into reliable agent behaviors.
- Define and enforce best practices for agent reliability, safety, observability, and cost control.
- Lead the design of APIs and services supporting agent runtime and coordination.
- Drive architectural decisions for agent frameworks and integrations across AI services.
- Troubleshoot complex system-level issues involving agent behavior, performance, or failure modes.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership within the AI engineering organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering, with increasing technical ownership.
- Strong proficiency in Python, with experience designing complex backend services.
- Experience building production systems involving LLMs, AI services, or agent-like workflows.
- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, service-oriented architectures, and system scalability.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems, including logs, traces, and metrics.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across research and engineering teams.
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonbackend systems engineeringdistributed systems engineeringRESTful APIsservice-oriented architecturessystem scalabilitydebuggingLLMsagent workflowsagent lifecycle management
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationtechnical leadershipmentoring
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software Engineering