Senior Member of Technical Staff – AI Research

Salesforce

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce innovating agentic AI systems and driving meaningful customer impact. Collaborating with teams to design and implement solutions with high technical standards.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $148,500 - $223,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

design, implement and iterate agentic AI systems with customers
innovate at the frontier of the field
create new solutions and define new categories of product with meaningful impact to Salesforce customers
build and maintain the shared system context that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably

Requirements

What you’ll need

Has exceptional engineering skills
Has deep ML knowledge with meaningful implementation track records
Prioritize deep and strategic thinking
Has dedication, patience and resilience to build exceptional product experience
Collaborative and win with teams
Proactive and bias to action, comfortable in fast-pacing environment
Competitive coding winner (ACM-ICPC, etc)
Startup founders in agentic AI, LLM, area (e.g., YC backed startup)
Strong proficiency in Python
Solid experience with C++ and/or Java
Experience building production-quality systems
Practical experience with LLMs and agentic workflows (tool use, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning)
Familiarity with prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems
Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks
Strong understanding of ML fundamentals
Experience implementing and debugging model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
Experience deploying ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Benefits

Comp & perks

time off programs
medical
dental
vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonC++Javamachine learningdeep learning frameworksproduction-quality systemsmodel trainingevaluation pipelinesinference pipelinesLLMs

Soft Skills

engineering skillsstrategic thinkingdedicationpatienceresiliencecollaborationproactivityaction-orientedcompetitive codingteamwork