Senior/Lead Machine Learning Engineer

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and productionalize models that drive customer growth, engagement and retention. This role will focus specifically on attrition prediction and mitigation - identifying customers at risk of churn and surfacing proactive interventions that improve customer satisfaction and lifetime value.

You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to build scalable ML systems that power attrition predictions, risk and mitigation explanations and next best action recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design predictive models for user and customer attrition using supervised, unsupervised, deep learning and generative techniques.
• Design scalable data pipelines for feature generation from both structured and unstructured sources of product adoption, sales activity, and customer engagement data (e.g. product telemetry, usage logs, CRM, sales activity, etc.)
• Build and maintain production-grade ML services, integrating models into APIs or decision systems that support real-time and batch use cases.
• Continuously monitor and improve model performance through drift detection, retraining automation and impact measurement.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate models into production systems and agentic experiences, ensuring scalability, robustness and efficiency.
• Mentor junior engineers and data scientists and provide technical leadership in model architecture, experimentation, and deployment best practices.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated ability to take models from research to production
• Strong software engineering proficiency in Python and data manipulation skills like SQL.
• Experience using third-party and in-house Machine learning tools and infrastructure to develop reusable, high-performing Machine Learning systems, enable fast model development, low-latency serving and ease of model quality upkeep.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software application (e.g. well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, etc.)
• Familiarity with ML libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, Pytorch, or TensorFlow
• Experience with feature engineering on big data (Spark, Trino, Snowflake, etc.)
• Experience with ML lifecycle management tools (ML Flow, Airflow, Kubeflow or equivalents).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong grasp of model evaluation, drift monitoring and explainability best practices.
• Experience with Agile development methodology, Test-Driven Development, incremental delivery, and CI/CD
• Experience owning and operating services throughout the software development lifecycle including design, development, release and maintenance.
• Experience communicating technical vision, mentoring junior engineers and managing projects.
• Experience developing and evaluating AI Agents that integrate with traditional ML models, (e.g. combining predictive scoring systems with generative or agentic workflows to automate customer engagement flows and recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus Points):

• Familiarity with retention modeling or next best action recommendation systems.
• Experience developing or contributing to shared ML frameworks or internal ML Ops platforms.
• Experience with Feature Stores like Feast

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: ;br>
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.The typical base salary range for this position is $114,200 - $306,600 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $137,100 - $334,600 annually.The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.