AI Architect, Salesforce
Software Engineering
$218.4-401.4k
Salary dependent on location
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$218.4-401.4k
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
- Expert in distributed systems, stateful runtimes, and LLM-based agent architectures
- Experience building orchestration frameworks, graph-based execution engines, or agent DSLs
- Strong grasp of LLM behavior, context management, and agent reliability in production
- Fluency in Python and Java; comfortable with cloud-native infra
- Curiosity about and familiarity with frontier agentic research — reasoning loops, tool use, memory architectures, and multi-agent systems
- You've shipped durable technical artifacts — platforms, frameworks, or open-source projects others build on
- Comfortable going from early-stage experiment to prototype to GA in fast-moving environments
- Experience with incubation, 0→1 projects, or founding engineer environments is a strong plus
- Exceptional written communication — from design docs to customer whitepapers
- Can speak to a developer, an enterprise architect, and a CIO with equal clarity and credibility
- Experience engaging enterprise customers as a trusted technical advisor
- Open-source community experience or developer advocacy background
- Familiarity with Salesforce platform primitives (Flow, Apex, Einstein, metadata)
- Background in ML infrastructure, data engineering, or AI platform work
- Experience with language/compiler design (relevant to DSL authoring systems like AgentScript)
- Familiarity with observability tooling, testing frameworks, or developer experience platforms
What the job involves
- We're hiring an AI Cloud Architect to help shape how agentic systems are built, deployed, and scaled at Salesforce
- You'll work at the frontier of the Agentforce platform — inventing new primitives, incubating next-gen agentic systems, partnering directly with customers, and setting architectural direction for how enterprise AI agents work in production
- This is a builder-communicator role. You'll write code and whitepapers, design runtimes and present to executive leadership
- Invent and Incubate:
- Drive fundamental advances in agentic AI — new execution models, agent orchestration frameworks, and stateful runtime architectures
- Lead incubation projects exploring next-generation agentic systems for the enterprise, including OpenClaw-style reasoning architectures and emerging multi-agent coordination patterns
- The kind of work that produced Agent Graph, AgentScript, and the Graph Runtime powering Agentforce today
- Shape the Core Platform:
- Influence core architectural decisions across Agentforce — agent determinism, A2A protocols, long-running async workflows, and context engineering
- Contribute adjacently to the agent development lifecycle — including Agent Builder, Agent Testing Center, and Agent Observability — helping define how developers build, validate, and monitor agents end-to-end
- Partner with customers:
- Work directly with strategic customers to understand their business context and co-design solutions using Agentforce
- Translate complex agent capabilities into concrete, trustworthy outcomes — from proof-of-concept to production
- Write and communicate with conviction:
- Produce technically rigorous, persuasive content — design docs, engineering blog posts, developer documentation, and external presentations
- You have a clear point of view and can defend it
- Drives alignment across engineering, product, and field without requiring authority
- Raises the technical bar around them — a natural teacher and force multiplier
- The agentic AI space is moving fast, and the hardest problems — agent determinism, stateful long-running workflows, multi-agent coordination, enterprise-grade reliability, next-gen reasoning architectures — don't have solved answers yet
- You'll work alongside exceptional systems thinkers and lead incubation work that could define the next chapter of Agentforce, while also contributing to the platform that already ships to millions of customers
- It's rare to find a role that demands both deep invention and real-world enterprise impact. This one does
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
SoMa, 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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