Software Engineering SMTS

• Build systems that learn from demonstrations and combine AI reasoning with deterministic execution to complete workflows reliably.
• Develop recovery and verification capabilities so agents can adapt to changes, confirm outcomes, and recognize when human intervention is needed.
• Build backend services with robust workflow state management, failure handling, and secure access to customer environments.
• Create evaluations and diagnostics that measure task success, expose regressions, and make failures understandable.

Build Directly With Customers

• Work alongside customers to understand their workflows, prototype solutions, and validate results in their environments.
• Investigate where automation succeeds or fails, then turn those findings into improvements to the core product.
• Help customers move from their first successful workflow toward repeatable, increasingly self-service adoption.
• Partner with forward-deployed engineers and product management to decide which customer needs should shape the roadmap.

Shape Technical Direction & Grow the Team

• Own technical decisions for substantial components, from initial design through production operation.
• Evaluate model selection, tool use, and context management against reliability, latency, and cost.
• Mentor peers through design discussions and code reviews, and participate in hiring.

• You’ve independently owned a substantial backend service or system through design, deployment, production failures, and subsequent improvements.
• You have hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM-powered systems, and can explain how you assessed their quality and failure modes.
• You can reason through concurrency, persistent state, retries, and partial failures in systems that perform consequential actions.
• You’re proficient in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• You can turn an unclear customer problem into a bounded technical approach, test it with users, and carry it through to production.
• You want direct customer engagement to be part of your engineering work, including investigating problems and discussing technical tradeoffs.
• You use AI development tools thoughtfully and take responsibility for the correctness, security, and maintainability of what you ship., * Agent tool use, code generation, automated recovery, or evaluation frameworks.
• Browser automation, workflow orchestration, or enterprise integrations.
• Building an early-stage product or working in a customer-facing engineering role.

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $246,000 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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