Lead Applied Scientist, Agentforce Operations

Role Description

Join a collaborative, diverse team of researchers at Agentforce Operations. The Foundational Models Team develops the next generation of business intelligence and bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and customer value. Following our recent acquisition, we offer the agility of an early-stage startup backed by the global scale and trust of Salesforce.

• Design, implement, and train novel deep learning models on large-scale GPU clusters.
• Prototype new architectures and algorithms for enterprise data, such as tabular, relational, and graph-structured data.
• Stay current with AI research, apply relevant breakthroughs, and advise on internal AI strategy.
• Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to turn research into functional, production-ready features that create immediate, tangible customer value.

Qualifications

• You have a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a highly quantitative field with an AI/ML research focus.
• You possess experience developing, deploying, and evaluating machine learning models in production or top-tier research environments.
• You have a deep understanding of transformer architectures and advanced retrieval mechanisms.
• You enjoy designing novel, non-standard AI solutions and have a track record of peer-reviewed publications demonstrating this work.
• You have production-grade Python skills, including experience with automatic differentiation frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• You have experience training large-scale models across distributed GPU clusters using frameworks like DeepSpeed or TorchTitan.

Requirements

• You have experience building production-grade ML pipelines using tools like Kubeflow, Airflow, or MLflow.
• You've built robust, distributed data pipelines for cleaning and analyzing massive datasets using tools like PySpark.

Benefits

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Employee stock purchasing program