Salesforce
Software Engineering, AI Systems (SMTS)
$148K–$246K
California - San Francisco +2 · Office Tech-Flexible · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- California - San Francisco
Washington - Bellevue
New York - New York
About the job
Build and operate production AI systems that learn workflows from demonstrations and automate them reliably across enterprise applications, working directly with customers.
What you'll do
- Design agent architecture, backend services, recovery, verification, and evaluation capabilities.
- Work with customers to prototype workflows, investigate failures, and turn findings into product improvements.
- Own substantial systems through production, evaluate models and tools, and mentor peers.
What they ask for
- Independently owned a substantial backend service or system through design, deployment, production failures, and improvements.
- Hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-powered systems, including assessing quality and failure modes.
- Can reason about concurrency, persistent state, retries, and partial failures in systems performing consequential actions.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent tool use, code generation, automated recovery, or evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with browser automation, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, early-stage products, or customer-facing engineering.
Pay
$148,500 - $223,900 annually (base salary, USD); $178,900 - $246,000 annually (base salary, USD)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript
AI focus
Develop AI agents that learn from demonstrations, combine AI reasoning with deterministic execution, recover from changes, verify outcomes, and identify when human intervention is needed; evaluate model selection, tool use, and context management.
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