Hybrid Senior Applied Scientist – Responsible AI

at Salesforce

• Job title: Senior Applied Scientist – Responsible AI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $172,000 - $334,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Applied Responsible AI Research Scientist at Salesforce involved in developing ethical AI products. Working with cross-functional teams to implement responsible AI processes across various projects.

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 a roadmap/specification/design and 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.

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.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program