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Salesforce is seeking a passionated and highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team in developing an advanced Generative AI platform. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Python, algorithm design, large-scale backend development, and experience in machine learning, with a particular focus on Generative AI technologies. This position requires a passion for building innovative AI products and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Your Impact:

• Own and drive development tasks such as coding and feature verifications as part of release commitments
• Proactive in highlighting issues and resolving them as quickly as possible
• Daily participation in stand-ups
• Participating in self coordinating as part of the delivery team to self coordinate
• Providing technical guidance to colleagues
• Vocally advocating for technical excellence and collaborating to help the team make good decisions
• Translating architecture into technical planning and execution

Key Responsibilities:

• Algorithm Development and Prototyping: Develop components of the platform’s Generative AI capabilities, with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, Agentic workflows, and other state-of-the-art generative techniques. Design and implement advanced algorithms to enable innovative AI features in the platform. Rapidly build prototypes to experiment with new algorithms, techniques, and open-source technologies.
• System Design and Performance Optimization: Build and optimize large-scale backend systems, taking throughput and latency into account. Apply performance optimization techniques, including parallel processing, stream processing, and asynchronous I/O to improve the efficiency and scalability of the platform.
• Code Review and Refactoring: Write clean, modular, and maintainable code. Read and digest existing codebases, perform code reviews, and refactor code to improve modularity, performance, and maintainability.
• Implement Evaluation and Diagnostics tools: Implement evaluation, logging, and tracing mechanisms, such as the Atlas-Trust foundation, to facilitate debugging, diagnostics, and performance tracking of the platform.
• Demo Development: Develop demos to showcase new features and the latest product innovations to collaborators and potential customers.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong Python Programming Expertise: Proficiency in Python, with extensive experience in algorithm design and the ability to evaluate different algorithmic approaches for optimal performance.
• Algorithm & Data Structures: Strong foundation in algorithm design and data structures, with an ability to defend choices, articulate design decisions, and remain open to alternative approaches.
• Code Quality & Refactoring: A keen sense of code quality and a commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and modular code. Experience refactoring existing codebases to improve modularity and performance.
• Backend System Development: Experience building large-scale backend systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and low latency. Familiarity with performance optimization techniques such as parallel and stream processing, as well as asynchronous I/O.
• Generative AI Experience (Preferred): Experience with Generative AI technologies, including RAG systems, Agentic workflows, or open-source frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, is a strong plus.

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