Salesforce Lead Applied Scientist - Responsible AI 

United States, California, San Francisco 

839499348

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Job Responsibilities

• 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 aroadmap/specification/designand 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Requirements:

• 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.

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to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $334,600. For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $306,600. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $334,600.