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Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research at Salesforce

Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research

Salesforce · CA, US

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About the Role

Salesforce AI Research is seeking entrepreneurial Research Scientists to build, ship, and scale the next generation of Enterprise AI. This role offers the pace and ownership of a startup combined with the reach and resources of Salesforce, providing a unique opportunity to build Enterprise AI with global impact.

Responsibilities

  • Identify research directions with the potential to transform Enterprise AI.
  • Turn promising ideas into zero-to-one AI product prototypes.
  • Work directly with customers to validate needs, test solutions, and refine product direction.
  • Build robust models, agents, and AI systems for real-world enterprise use.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to bring solutions to market.

Requirements

  • Prior Salesforce internship experience is required.
  • Strong publication record at top AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP) and/or a proven track record of shipping AI research into real-world products.
  • Experience with Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or DeepSpeed.
  • Motivated by real-world impact and seeing research reach users at scale.
  • Demonstrated expertise in Agentic AI and Reasoning, Multimodal and Computer Vision, Speech Intelligence, or Core Modeling and Post-Training.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research and translate ideas into impactful systems.

Skills

  • Agentic AI and Reasoning
  • LLM-powered agents
  • Reinforcement learning (RL)
  • Reasoning and planning
  • Autonomous workflows
  • Computer use agents
  • Deep research agents
  • Coding agents
  • Multimodal and Computer Vision
  • Vision-language models
  • Video understanding
  • Multimodal AI agents
  • Speech Intelligence
  • Voice intelligence
  • Text-to-speech/automatic speech recognition
  • Low-latency audio processing
  • Core Modeling and Post-Training
  • Pre-training and post-training techniques
  • RLHF
  • Direct preference optimization
  • Model distillation
  • Evaluation
  • Time series modeling
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • DeepSpeed
  • Responsible AI
  • Problem solving
  • Written and spoken communication
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Location

  • Select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Industry experience in deep learning research or product

Education Level

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (or equivalent full-time industry experience)

Salary/Compensations

  • $117,200 - $260,100 annually (US)
  • $141,200 - $285,800 annually (select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

  • Time off programs
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchasing program

About the Company

  • Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.
  • 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.
  • Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
  • Salesforce AI Research is a global leader in Enterprise AI, driving innovations that advance the state of AI while powering enterprise products at worldwide scale.
  • Our research has helped shape multiple generations of modern AI: we helped pioneer prompt engineering through DecaNLP; introduced BLIP, a foundational breakthrough in multimodal AI; trained state-of-the-art large language models including CodeGen; and pioneered foundation models for time series with Moirai.
  • Today, we continue to advance the frontier of enterprise AI through innovations in AI simulation environments like eVerse, our simulation and agent-training environment; the Atlas Reasoning Engine, which powers Agentforce reasoning capabilities; and other AI systems that are redefining how enterprises reason, plan, and act.
  • Our team's unique ability is taking ideas from research to real-world impact at scale.
  • We work closely with product teams and enterprise customers to translate cutting-edge research into production AI capabilities used by millions of users.
  • Our innovations continue to shape the future of Salesforce products and the broader enterprise AI ecosystem.
  • We also continue to publish at the world's top AI conferences, open source influential research, and collaborate with leading academic institutions.
  • We believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

Equal Opportunity

  • Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.
  • We believe in equality for all and strive to create a workplace that’s inclusive and free from discrimination.
  • Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit.
  • Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.