Director, Agentforce Engineering

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.

Opportunity

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. We are Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. We empower you to be a Trailblazer too – driving performance, career growth, and making an impact on the world.

We are looking for a technical leader who understands that building an AI agent is only 10% of the work – the real engineering challenge is measuring it. You will lead the team responsible for defining what "good" looks like for agents, moving beyond basic accuracy to rigorous evaluations that bridge agent specifications to business outcomes. You will bring together Applied Science (defining metrics, curating golden datasets, establishing ground truth) and Product Engineering (shipping software).

Responsibilities

• Build the "Evaluation Core": Lead the engineering of a scalable evaluation platform that runs in parallel with agent execution.

• Thread Science & Engineering: Operationalize applied science by turning theoretical benchmarks into production regression tests and bring about a discipline of eval‑driven development.

• Thought Leadership: Lead as an expert on building agents and deliver features that measure performance and accuracy of AI agents. You are a builder and a subject‑matter expert on agentic evaluations.

• You are an engineering leader who can guide the group through technical leadership, process management, and maintain a disciplined, high‑quality code delivery aided with AI tools as necessary.

• You are an engineering leader with deep technical expertise who operates with empathy and collaboration.

• You are a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members' success, providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring.

Required Skills

• Specialized Agent Evaluation Experience: You have specific experience building evaluation harnesses for LLMs or agents.

• Applied Science & Engineering Hybrid: You have a track record of managing "Research Engineering" or "Applied Science" teams where you operationalized vague scientific goals into shipping code. You are comfortable curating "Golden Sets" of data and building custom benchmarks from scratch.

• Deep Knowledge of Evaluation Methodologies: You are fluent in modern evaluation techniques, including:

  • LLM-as-a-Judge: Validating judges against human ground truth to prevent self‑bias.
  • Behavioral Analysis: Evaluating how an agent thinks (reasoning traces/chain of thought), not just the final output.

• Production‑Grade AI Experience: You have shipped AI products where you managed real‑world constraints like token budgets, inference latency, and cost‑normalized accuracy, building ML solutions that work in production at scale.

• Familiarity with academic and industry benchmarks and their limitations in a business environment.

• Experience building simulation environments (mock APIs, virtual users) to stress‑test agents safely before deployment.

• Experience with data engineering, specifically around data acquisition, creating pipelines, metric measurement, and analysis.

• Experience owning highly available services and putting processes in place to maintain uptime.

• Prior experience working with global teams.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time‑management skills.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field with a focus on system evaluation or reliability.

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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 Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 – $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 – $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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