Description
Salesforce AI Research Labs is seeking Research Scientists to build, ship, and scale the next generation of Enterprise AI. As a Research Scientist, you will work like a founder within Salesforce, identifying high-impact research directions, prototyping cutting-edge AI capabilities, validating ideas directly with customers, and turning the strongest concepts into production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Own and pursue ambitious, long-term research goals
- Develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems
- Lead teams to deliver on complex pure and applied research projects
- 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
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
- Publication record in top AI venues
- Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages
- Experience with deep learning libraries/platforms
- Proven ability to implement, operate, and deliver results via innovation at large scale
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research and translate ideas into impactful systems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Full-time industry experience in deep learning research or product
- Strong experience building and applying ML models for business applications
- Experience training large language models
- Experience mentoring and advising other researchers
- Strong programming skills
- Experience implementing high-performance and large-scale deep learning systems
- Thoughtful about AI impacts and ethics