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Salesforce · 2 hours ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to incubate next-generation agentic AI platforms, collaborating with various teams to innovate and create impactful solutions for customers.

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Responsibilities

Design, implement and iterate agentic AI systems with customers
Innovate at the frontier of the field, creating new solutions and defining new categories of product with meaningful impact to Salesforce customers and beyond

Qualification

PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningLLM SystemsC++JavaDockerAWSGCPAzureResilienceProactivityCollaborationStrategic Thinking

Required

Has exceptional engineering skills
Has deep ML knowledge with meaningful implementation track records
Prioritize deep and strategic thinking
Has dedication, patience and resilience to build exceptional product experience
Collaborative and win with teams
Proactive and bias to action, comfortable in fast-pacing environment
Strong proficiency in Python; solid experience with C++ and/or Java
Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
Experience building production-quality systems
Practical experience with LLMs and agentic workflows (tool use, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning)
Experience building end-to-end AI agents or complex AI-driven applications
Familiarity with prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems
Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks
Strong understanding of ML fundamentals
Experience implementing and debugging model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
Experience deploying ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Familiarity with distributed training or inference and performance optimization

Preferred

Top school majoring in CS (Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT)
Competitive coding winner (ACM-ICPC, etc). Look for global and competitive competition, Kaggle does not count
Startup founders in agentic AI, LLM, area (e.g., YC backed startup)
As first contributor, open source and maintain projects that gets traction (2k+ stars)
For BS/MS, as first author, publish at least one high-impact paper (500+ citations). For PhD, the bar will be higher (2-3 first-author high impact (500+ citations) papers or 1 first-author stellar (3000+citations) paper

Benefits

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

Company

Salesforce

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Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.

H1B Sponsorship

Salesforce has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1883)
2024 (2296)
2023 (1850)
2022 (2849)
2021 (2124)
2020 (1960)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$65.38M
Key Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
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Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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