Senior/Lead Fullstack Engineer - AI Research

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Salesforce AI Research is looking for outstanding software developers.

At Salesforce AI Research, we innovate by publishing at top academic conferences and filing patents. We embed our research work across Salesforce products for the worlds #1 AI CRM. We gain perspectives from product to research that help guide future directions. We believe that making substantive progress on hard applications can drive and sharpen the research questions we study, and in turn, scientific breakthroughs can spawn entirely new applications.

Check out our website to learn more about the groundbreaking work of the Salesforce AI Research team https://www.salesforceairesearch.com

Your Impact:
In this role, you will play a pivotal part in accelerating the work of our researchers and data collection teams by building tools and infrastructure that streamline the end-to-end process of collecting, annotating, and managing AI agent data. You will collaborate closely with researchers and data scientists to transform early research ideas into robust incubation products, contributing to both backend services and frontend interfaces that support internal workflows and pilot customer deployments. By implementing state-of-the-art research into production-quality demo prototypes, you will help bridge the gap between cutting-edge innovation and real-world impact—bringing research to life in ways that inform product direction and deliver tangible value to the broader AI ecosystem.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of professional experience as a fullstack engineer or software developer
• Experience building internal tools or UIs for data labeling, annotation, or human-in-the-loop workflows
• Proficiency in building and integrating RESTful APIs, with experience using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming and fluency in at least one core language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, C++)
• High proficiency in at least one backend web framework (e.g., Node.js with Express, Python with Flask/FastAPI/Django)
• Solid understanding of frontend technologies including JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and asynchronous communication (e.g., JSON, AJAX)
• Familiarity with database design and query optimization using relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Experience with automated testing frameworks for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially when working with cross-functional teams including researchers and data scientists

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with LLMs, agent frameworks, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
• Familiarity with Python-based AI research tooling (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers)
• Experience designing, maintaining, and scaling structured or semi-structured data pipelines
• Experience deploying fullstack applications using Docker and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Demonstrated ability to turn research papers or models into interactive prototypes or product-ready demos
• Experience building robust internal systems and user-facing tools for research or experimentation
• Familiarity with Agile development processes and a strong bias toward rapid iteration and continuous improvement

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $276,100.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.