Lead Member of Technical Staff - AI Research
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and iterate agentic AI systems with engineers, product managers, solution engineers, and customers.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices.
- Design and orchestrate complex systems in which AI agents integrate into human workflows.
- Build and maintain shared system context containing system designs, constraints, and standards.
- Critically evaluate human- and AI-generated code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Build end-to-end AI agents and complex AI-driven applications using LLM tool use, planning, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
- Implement and debug model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
- Deploy ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms, and optimize distributed training or inference.
- Use AI development tools, prompt engineering, and structured system context to produce reliable, secure, and production-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Exceptional software engineering skills and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Deep machine learning knowledge with a meaningful implementation track record.
- Strong proficiency in Python and solid experience with C++ and/or Java.
- Experience building production-quality systems.
- Practical experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, prompting, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and a strong understanding of ML fundamentals.
- Experience deploying ML systems with Docker and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with distributed training or inference and performance optimization.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to cultivate reliable system context.
- A demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering and experience using AI tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor.
- Strategic thinking, collaboration, resilience, proactive execution, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
- Competitive coding experience such as ACM-ICPC or experience founding a startup in agentic AI or LLMs is cited as a candidate profile.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time-off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role includes base salary ranges of $172,500-$260,100 annually, or $207,800-$285,800 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area locations; bonus, equity, and benefits may be separate.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com