Principal AI Engineer - Agentforce Platform

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

17h•$216,300 - $313,700

About The Position

About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. We're seeking an AI Engineer to build the tooling and services that enable developers to write, test, and deploy AI Agents efficiently. You'll ship impactful developer experience platforms using advanced Generative AI to create a world-class Agent creation environment. We're data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers passionate about building intelligent agents that drive customer success 24/7. We love to learn, teach, and collaborate The Role You'll be the technical bridge between agent authoring tools and the runtime platform. Design and build AgentScript—the language and tooling for efficient AI Agent development. Own the language translation pipeline and developer tools across IDEs, web editors, and compilation engines.

Requirements

5+ years software development experience; BS/MS in CS, Software Engineering, or related STEM field
Deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise for client tooling and Language Server development; strong Python skills for compilers and backend
Proven experience with developer tooling, editor integrations, or IDE extensions
Track record designing robust, decoupled architecture
Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills
Strong problem-solving abilities

Nice To Haves

Experience with conversational AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, or AI-enhanced developer productivity
Knowledge of AI agents, declarative specification languages, or conversational AI
Experience with simulation/debugging APIs and fast feedback loops
Expertise in language Intermediate Representations (IRs) and cross-language synchronization
Compiler pipeline mastery (lexing, parsing, semantic analysis), parser generators (ANTLR4, Tree-sitter), and DSL implementation

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain the processing pipeline (compilers, interpreters, code generators) that transforms source code into executable Agent specifications
Build client-side tooling for IntelliSense, code completion, validation, refactoring, and diagnostics
Enable rapid iteration through reverse-engineering specs and integrating simulation/debugging APIs
Synchronize language grammars, data models, and validation logic across backend (Python) and client-side (TypeScript/JavaScript)
Collaborate with internal teams to ensure an intuitive, effective developer experience
Design core libraries for validation, compilation, and language services