Principal Architect, AI Labs
Salesforce4 days ago
Base Salary
$197k - $401k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical and AI diligence for potential acquisitions and strategic investments.
- Evaluate AI architecture, models, data strategy, infrastructure, security, scalability, technical differentiation, and technical debt.
- Interview and score DeepTech talent and assess build-versus-buy decisions and technology defensibility.
- Partner with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders during diligence.
- Translate material technical risks and opportunities into recommendations for AI Labs leadership.
- Identify shared AI technologies, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, standards, and services for portfolio companies.
- Advise on capabilities that should be built across AI Labs and assess related technical and nontechnical tradeoffs.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor across the AI Labs portfolio.
Requirements
- Principal- or Distinguished-level engineering or architecture experience in AI, ML, and production-scale AI products.
- Deep understanding of modern AI architectures, models, training, post-training, inference, data, evaluation, infrastructure, and production systems.
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar technical stacks and distinguish technical differentiation from implementation detail.
- Experience working with startup or founder-led engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgment, product taste, and pragmatic business thinking.
- Experience with technical diligence, DeepTech investing, acquisitions, or startup evaluation is preferred but not required; shipped differentiated AI/ML products are valued more highly.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation and equity.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.