# Research Scientist

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $117,200 - $313,700 annually
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for entrepreneurial Research Scientists who want to build, ship, and scale the next generation of Enterprise AI. This is not a traditional research role , you 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:

- 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:

- 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 , care about seeing research leave the lab and reach users at scale.

- Demonstrated expertise in one or more core focus areas: Agentic AI and Reasoning, Multimodal and Computer Vision, Speech Intelligence, Core Modeling and Post-Training.

- Ability to conduct independent research and translate ideas into impactful systems.

Benefits:

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

Salary: $117,200 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $344,700 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- JAX
- DeepSpeed
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning

### Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- equivalent full-time industry experience
- experience building and scaling ML models
- experience mentoring and advising other researchers

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