Applied Research Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, Illinois - Chicago, New York - New York, Washington - Seattle, Georgia - Atlanta, Indiana - Indianapolis, Texas - Austin, CA

Salesforce is seeking an Applied Research Engineer to bridge the gap between frontier AI technology and customer-facing reality. This role involves building and deploying next-generation services leveraging Generative AI and Agentic Systems, transforming research breakthroughs into stable, secure, and production-ready applications. The engineer will work alongside research scientists, bringing cutting-edge theory into practice, building tools and pipelines, designing and deploying production services (APIs, UIs, agentic evaluators), and rolling out scalable cloud architectures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work alongside other motivated and talented research engineers to bring cutting-edge theory into customer-facing practice.
  2. Build tools and pipelines to support ML and AI efforts.
  3. Design, build, deploy, and maintain production services, like APIs, UIs, agentic evaluators, and more.
  4. Roll out scalable cloud architectures.
  5. Help with end-user requirements gathering and executive presentations.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Linux
  • production cloud deployments
  • security principles

Nice to have

  • React
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • UI and graphic design sensibilities

What the JD emphasized

  • production services
  • agentic evaluators
  • scalable cloud architectures

Other signals

  • Generative AI
  • Agentic Systems
  • production services
  • customer-facing reality