Applied Research Engineer
Salesforce
About the Role
Salesforce AI is seeking talented software and platform engineers to join our AI team, bridging the gap between frontier AI technology and customer-facing reality. This role is crucial for transforming research breakthroughs into stable, secure, and production-ready applications. You will work directly alongside Research Scientists to bring models to life, focusing on a high-impact systems role that offers deep technical challenge and massive, real-world scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Work alongside other motivated and talented research engineers to bring cutting-edge theory into customer-facing practice.
- Build tools and pipelines to support ML and AI efforts.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain production services, such as APIs, UIs, agentic evaluators, and more.
- Roll out scalable cloud architectures.
- Help with end-user requirements gathering and executive presentations.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong abilities with Python and Linux.
- Some abilities with React.
- Experience with production cloud deployments like AWS or GCP.
- Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience field-debugging full-stack deployments.
- Solid understanding of security principles and best practices.
- UI and graphic design sensibilities are a plus.
- Author high-quality, low-cognitive-load, fully-tested code – with and without AI assistance.