Applied Research Engineer
About The Position
Salesforce AI is looking for talented software and platform engineers to embed in our AI team to bridge the gap between frontier AI technology and customer-facing reality. This role is crucial to transforming our research breakthroughs into stable, secure, and production-ready applications. The Research Engineering team works directly alongside Research Scientists to bring models to life. This position is dedicated to a high-impact systems role, providing the best of both worlds: deep technical challenge and massive, real-world scale. We believe that building substantive, scalable infrastructure is what enables scientific breakthroughs to spawn entirely new applications.
Requirements
- Strong abilities with Python and Linux
- Some abilities with React
- Experience with production cloud deployments like AWS or GCP
- Experience field-debugging full-stack deployments
- Solid understanding of security principles and best practices
Nice To Haves
- Kubernetes is a plus
- UI and graphic design sensibilities are a plus
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, like APIs, UIs, agentic evaluators, and more.
- Roll out scalable cloud architectures.
- Help with end-user requirements gathering and executive presentations.
- Author high-quality, low-cognitive-load, fully-tested code – with- and without- AI assistance.
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
