Lead Applied Research Scientist, Salesforce
Responsible AI
$165.6-323.4k
Salary dependent on location
World's leading CRM provider
Open for applications
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$165.6-323.4k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have experience in artificial intelligence and specifically the field of responsible / ethical AI including Generative AI
- Master's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Social or Applied Sciences, or a related field
- 5-8 years of relevant experience in AI ethics, AI research, Security, Trust & Safety, or similar roles. Additional experience researching responsible generative AI challenges and risk mitigations
- Expertise in one of the following areas: alignment, adversarial robustness, interpretability/explainability, or fairness in generative AI
- Proven leadership, organizational, and execution skills. Passion for developing cutting-edge AI ethics technology and deploying it through a multi-stakeholder approach
- Experience working in a technical environment with a broad, cross-functional team to drive results, define product requirements, coordinate resources from other groups (design, legal, etc.), and guide the team through key milestones
- Proven ability to implement, operate, and deliver results via innovation at a large scale
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills, including the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable
- 8-10 years of relevant experience in AI ethics, AI research, security, Trust & Safety, or similar roles
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, Data Science or quantitative Social Sciences
- Published research on algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency, especially around detecting and mitigating bias or AI safety
- Full-time industry experience in deep learning research/product
- Strong experience building and applying machine learning models for business applications
- Strong programming skills
- Experience in implementing high-performance and large-scale deep learning systems
- Thoughtful about AI impacts and ethics
- Fantastic problem solver; ability to solve problems the world has not solved before
- Presented a paper at NeurIPS, FAccT, AIES, or similar conferences
- Works well under pressure, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
What the job involves
- To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts
- They will work across teams to implement responsible AI processes including but not limited to bias assessments, accuracy measurements, harms modeling, privacy (memorization, unlearning), security, and AI model trust and safety
- Develop strategy, alongside Salesforce AI Research, engineering, data science, and product management to create, develop, and ship cutting-edge generative AI capabilities for Salesforce customers while mitigating ethical risks and capturing ethical opportunities
- Identify potential negative consequences, then identify how those consequences might be mitigated and drive prioritization of those mitigations into a team’s roadmap. Conversely, identify positive ethical impacts in a roadmap/specification/design and ways to amplify them in the product
- Trust and safety, as well as CRM benchmarking against other models and different versions of the same model
- Develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems
- As needed, lead teams to deliver on more complex pure and applied research projects
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company values
- Trust - We earn the trust of our customers, employees, and extended family through transparency, security, compliance, privacy, and performance. And we deliver the industry’s most trusted infrastructure
- Customer Success - So we champion them to achieve extraordinary things. We innovate and expand our business offerings to provide all our stakeholders with new avenues to achieve ever greater success
- Innovation - Our customers’ input helps us develop products that best serve their business needs. Providing continual technology releases and new initiatives gives our customers a competitive advantage
- Equality - We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company
- Sustainability – We are committed to bringing the full power of Salesforce to accelerate the world’s journey to net zero
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
People progressing
Joined as Recruiting Director - Futureforce University Recruiting, EMEA, and was promoted to Senior Director - EMEA & LATAM Recruiting, Futureforce after 3 years, and then again to Senior Director - Recruiting after 2 years. Now serve as COO - Employee Success EMEA.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Salesforce
- Our goals:
- 50% of our U.S. employees will be made up of underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans) by 2023
- Double the U.S. representation of Black leaders (VP+) and increase our representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) leaders by 50% by 2023
- 50% increase our U.S. representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) employees by 50% by 2023
- We’ve met our representation goal nearly a full year early – today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups
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