Salesforce
Senior / Lead Member of Technical Staff - AI Research
$172K–$286K
California - Palo Alto · Office Tech-Flexible · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
About the job
Designs, builds, and iterates production-grade agentic AI systems and products, working with engineering, product, and solution teams and customers.
What you'll do
- Design and build agentic AI systems that integrate with human workflows.
- Develop, deploy, evaluate, and optimize production ML and LLM applications.
- Review human- or AI-generated code and maintain system context, designs, constraints, and standards.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in Python and solid experience with C++ and/or Java.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-quality systems.
- Practical experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, and end-to-end AI agents or complex AI-driven applications.
- Hands-on deep learning framework experience and ML fundamentals, including model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
Nice to have
- Competitive coding winner (ACM-ICPC, etc).
- Startup founders in agentic AI, LLM, area (e.g., YC backed startup)
Pay
$172,500 - $260,100 annually (base salary); $207,800 - $285,800 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Java, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub Copilot
AI focus
Build and deploy agentic AI and LLM systems, including tool use, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning, and ML pipelines; use AI development tools and prompt engineering in software workflows.
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