Salesforce

Principal AI Engineer

Salesforce$172K — $313K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years as a Platform Engineer, ML Infrastructure Engineer, or Software Engineer
  • Experience building agent harness infrastructure with agentic loops, tool orchestration, and multi-turn conversation management
  • Hands-on with agent evaluation frameworks like Braintrust or LangSmith
  • Strong understanding of sandboxing and safe agent execution
  • Proficient in Python for scalable tools and automation
  • Deep expertise in AWS
  • Extensive experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
  • Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • Familiar with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Experience with production Multi Agent systems and AgentOps concepts

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agent harness infrastructure for iterative improvement of AI agents
  • Implement patterns for multi-turn reasoning and memory management
  • Build automated pipelines for agent trace collection and performance evaluations
  • Own the lifecycle from agent experimentation to production deployment
  • Create sandboxed environments for secure agent execution
  • Design tiered models for agent autonomy and access control
  • Implement evaluation frameworks tracking agent performance and quality metrics
  • Establish CI/CD pipelines ensuring agents pass evaluation suites before deployment
  • Build developer tools to facilitate self-service for ML engineers and data scientists
  • Monitor agent performance and ensure adherence to security best practices

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

We are seeking a highly skilled AI Platform Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next generation of our ML/AI platform that doesn't just support ML models, but powers autonomous AI agents at enterprise scale. This role sits at the intersection of platform infrastructure and agent systems engineering. You'll build and maintain the core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services that underpin our machine learning initiatives and go further in designing the harnesses, sandboxes, and evaluation frameworks that let AI agents be developed, tested, and trusted in production.

You'll work on systems that directly impact marketing, sales, service, and product growth verticals across the organization.

This isn't a traditional infrastructure role. You should be comfortable wearing multiple hats of software engineering, agent systems design, and evaluation tooling. We're looking for engineers who think in flywheels: build 12;evaluate 12; improve 12; ship 12; repeat.

What You19ll Do
Agent Harness & Flywheel Engineering

  • Design and build agent harness infrastructure: the scaffolding that wraps LLM calls, manages tool use, handles retries, enforces policy, and feeds results back into iterative improvement loops.

  • Implement agentic loop patterns with multi-turn reasoning, tool orchestration, memory management, and structured output handling as reusable platform primitives

  • Build the agent flywheel: automated pipelines that collect agent traces, surface regressions, route failures to evaluation, and close the loop from production signal back to prompt/model improvement

  • Own the end-to-end lifecycle from agent experiment to production deployment, including versioning, rollout controls, and rollback mechanisms


Sandboxing & Safe Execution

  • Build sandboxed execution environments for agent tools with isolating code execution, API calls, and file system access so agents can act without unconstrained blast radius

  • Design tiered autonomy models: define which actions agents can take automatically, which require human approval, and which are off-limits and enforced at the infrastructure layer

  • Implement replay and dry-run capabilities so new agent versions can be tested against real traces before going live


Agent Evaluation, Observability & Optimization

  • Implement evaluation frameworks for agent behavior using a combination of vendor , open source or in house built tools 12; covering task success, tool selection accuracy, trajectory evaluation, hallucination rates, latency, and cost

  • Build and maintain eval datasets, golden trace libraries, and regression test suites that run automatically on every agent code change

  • Instrument agent traces end-to-end: LLM calls, tool invocations, intermediate reasoning, final outputs 12; surfaced in Grafana or equivalent observability tooling

  • Define and track agent quality metrics over time; own the signal that tells the team whether agents are getting better or worse

  • Drive continuous quality, latency, and cost improvements across deployed agents by closing the loop between production traces, evaluations, and agent design. Optimization may be done through a variety of techniques e.g. prompt tuning, tool calling optimizations, context engineering, right-sizing model selection per task and explore distillation or fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, RLHF) on curated trace data to name a few

  • Validate every optimization through A/B tests, shadow deployments, and replay against golden traces, with the eval suite gating rollout so wins are real and regressions are caught before they reach users


CI/CD & Workflow Automation

  • Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) that cover not just code deployment but agent evaluation gates 12; no agent ships without passing its eval suite

  • Automate Docker and package builds, security scanning, and agent integration tests as first-class pipeline steps

  • Design self-healing CI patterns where agent-based automation can diagnose and fix common pipeline failures


Tooling, Developer Experience & Architecture

  • Build internal tools and developer self-service interfaces that let ML engineers and data scientists iterate on agents without platform team involvement

  • Maintain a comprehensive view of how all platform components -> infrastructure, agent harnesses, evaluation pipelines, observability 12; work together

  • Create architecture diagrams and drive long-term platform vision; own the 24how does this scale to 10x25 conversation


Monitoring, Security & Reliability

  • Establish alerting (Grafana, PagerDuty) for both traditional platform health and agent-specific signals (error rates, tool call failures, eval score drift)

  • Ensure all agent infrastructure adheres to security best practices: sandboxed execution, auditable traces, access controls on every tool

  • Participate in security reviews; own compliance for agent workloads



What We19re Looking For

  • 9+ years as a Platform Engineer, ML Infrastructure Engineer, or Software Engineer

  • Demonstrated experience building agent harness infrastructure using agentic loops, tool orchestration, structured output handling, multi-turn conversation management

  • Hands-on experience with agent evaluation frameworks like Braintrust, LangSmith, or equivalent , including building eval datasets, running automated regression suites, and tracking quality metrics over time

  • Strong understanding of sandboxing and safe agent execution like isolation patterns, tiered autonomy, blast radius controls

  • Experience with context Engineering as it relates to Agent orchestration.

  • Strong Python engineering skills for building scalable tools, automation, and platform components

  • Deep expertise in AWS

  • Extensive experience with CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions and ArgoCD

  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)

  • Experience with AgentOps concepts and production Multi Agent systems

  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities across a complex platform

  • Preferred Qualifications (Bonus Points):

  • Experience with Salesforce Ecosystem including Agentforce and Data360

  • Experience with unstructured databases(vector or graph databases) and RAG pipelines

  • Experience working with modern data platforms and real-time processing frameworks, including cloud data warehouses (e.g., snowflake), streaming technologies (e.g. kafka, flink)

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