Principal Software Engineer

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Software Engineering

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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.

About Agentforce
At Salesforce, Agentforce embodies our commitment to leveraging AI, data analytics, and CRM to revolutionize business operations. Agentforce integrates advanced AI capabilities and real-time data insights to deliver a seamless and intuitive experience across all business functions. Designed to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and provide actionable intelligence, Agentforce ensures that organizations can make data-driven decisions with confidence. Upholding the highest standards of trust and security, Agentforce empowers businesses to build stronger customer relationships, drive growth, and achieve their goals with unparalleled efficiency and reliability.

Role Description
As a Senior Engineering contributor on the Agentforce platform team, you will own the architecture, design, and execution of our Agentic AI platform and applications. You'll collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and data teams to build and turn cutting-edge architecture and research into scalable, production-ready systems.

You are not just a coder — you are a thought leader, innovator, builder and mentor who thrives on ownership and pushing boundaries in applied machine learning and software engineering, in a rapidly changing and cutting edge space.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of AI-powered backend systems and services.
• Design and optimize data pipelines for training and inference at scale.
• Work with product and business teams to translate user needs into technical requirements.
• Set technical direction and mentor engineers across teams.
• Drive adoption of MLOps best practices for model training, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Innovate in model building,but in how models are trained,deployed,and monitored
• Make strategic technical decisions on build vs buy, model selection, and infrastructure.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of software engineering experience; 3–5+ years building AI/ML systems at scale
• Expertise in at least one object oriented programming language (Java/C++) and one ML native language (Python).
• Strong experience in Applied AI and building AI applications.
• Deep experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with LLMs, vector databases, and applied generative AI (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines).
• Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP).
• Experience in building and scaling ML pipelines, data engineering workflows, and API platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to translate complex AI concepts into pragmatic engineering decisions
• Experience in startups or high-growth tech companies.

Preferred Skills

• Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects
• Patents, papers, blogs, or other external publications
• Strong startup mindset demonstrated by innovation-first projects

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and
be your best
, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can
do your best
. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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