Senior or Principal Data Scientist, Salesforce
Technical AI Ethicist
$172-236.5k
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World's leading CRM provider
Open for applications
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172-236.5k
More information about 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 technical experience in generative as well as predictive artificial intelligence and in responsible / ethical AI
- A related technical degree required
- 7+ years of proven experience in Software Engineering, AI ethics, AI research, or similar roles
- Experience creating heuristic-based detection logic and rules for identifying anomalous or suspicious activity in systems and networks (e.g. log analysis, user behavior analytics)
- Experience using SQL and relational databases. Ability to use Python, R, or other scripting languages to perform data analysis at scale
- Experience with problem-solving and troubleshooting sophisticated issues with an emphasis on root-cause analysis
- Experience in analyzing sophisticated, large-scale data sets and communicating findings to technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven organizational and execution skills within a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment
- Experience working in a technical environment with a broad, cross-functional team to get results, define requirements, coordinate assets from other groups (design, legal, etc.), and deliver key achievements
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills, including the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Works well under pressure, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
What the job involves
- Salesforce’s Office of Ethical and Humane Use is seeking an experienced responsible AI data scientist with an adversarial approach and experience conducting ethical red teaming to contribute to our ethical red teaming practice
- In this role, you will help us gain a deep understanding of how our models and products may be leveraged by malign actors or through unanticipated use to cause harm
- In addition to adversarial testing, you will analyze current safety trends, and develop solutions to detect and mitigate risk, while working cross-functionally with security, engineering, data science, and AI Research teams
- You will bring technical depth to the assessment of AI products, models, and applications, in order to identify the best technical mitigations to identified risks
- Provide technical leadership in designing, prototyping, and implementing comprehensive adversarial testing strategies, including both automated and manual adversarial testing approaches
- Mentor and guide collaborator teams on adversarial testing standard processes, helping them develop the skills to conduct their own testing effectively
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate OEHU adversarial testing frameworks into the AI development lifecycle
- Contribute to the development of detection models, safety guardrails, and other proactive measures to prevent and mitigate risks posed by bad actors
- Research and implement innovative techniques for enhancing AI safety and robustness, drawing from both open-source and internal tools
- Collaborate with Salesforce’s AI Research team on novel approaches to model safety
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code (primarily in Python) to support research efforts and facilitate the evaluation of AI systems
- Develop and maintain a repository of reusable code modules and libraries to streamline adversarial testing processes
- Participate in scoping, documenting, and implementing tests with partner teams, including the implementation of mitigations identified during testing
- Test for technical vulnerabilities, model vulnerabilities, and harm/abuse including but not limited to bias, toxicity, and inaccuracy
- Participate in labeling test data in partnership with OEHU and partner teams
- Write reports covering the goals and outcomes of testing operations, including significant observations and recommendations
- Continuously monitor and analyze emerging threats and vulnerabilities to inform the development of adaptive safety measures
- Continue to grow expertise in model safety by keeping up with research in socio-technical systems, privacy, interpretability/explainability, robustness, alignment, and responsible AI
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
-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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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.
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