Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research
InformaticaBase Salary
$149k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and iterate agentic AI systems with research, engineering, product, solution engineering, and customer teams.
- Build and ship high-quality production software and complex systems integrating AI agents into human workflows.
- Build and maintain shared system context containing system designs, constraints, and standards for reliable AI operation.
- 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 LLMs and agentic workflows.
- 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 and advanced prompt engineering to create secure, reliable, production-ready systems.
Requirements
- Exceptional software engineering skills and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, and production-quality systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and solid experience with C++ and/or Java.
- Deep machine learning knowledge with a meaningful implementation track record and hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks.
- Practical experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, tool use, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning, prompting, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Experience implementing and debugging model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
- 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 create precise structured prompts and reliable system context.
- Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor.
- Strategic thinking, resilience, collaboration, proactive execution, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment are expected.
- Competitive coding achievements or experience founding an agentic AI or LLM startup are examples of notable candidate backgrounds.
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.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
- The role is offered with location-dependent base salary ranges, including $148,500–$223,900 annually generally and $178,900–$246,000 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan locations.
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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