AI Research Scientist at Salesforce AI Research (Singapore)
Job Description
Salesforce is hiring an AI research scientist in Singapore for Salesforce AI Research, to develop agents, models and AI systems for enterprise use and take the strongest ideas from prototype to product (requisition JR274065).
At a glance
- Position: AI Research Scientist (research scientist or senior research scientist)
- Where: Singapore
- Pay: Not stated in the posting
- Type: Full time
- Team: Salesforce AI Research
- Apply: open until filled (re-checked 17 October 2026)
About the AI research scientist role in Singapore
- Set and pursue ambitious, long-term research goals in enterprise AI
- Identify research directions with the potential to change how businesses use AI, and turn promising ideas into early product prototypes
- Work directly with customers to test needs and solutions and refine direction
- Build robust models, agents and AI systems for real-world enterprise use
- Lead teams where needed on pure and applied research projects
- Partner with product, engineering and go-to-market teams to bring solutions to market
Salesforce describes this as a research role with a founder’s mindset: scientists are expected to propose and incubate new ideas, validate them quickly with internal and external customers, and care about adoption as much as technical novelty. The team publishes at major AI conferences and releases open-source work; its past projects named in the posting include the BLIP vision-language models, the CodeGen code models and the Moirai time-series foundation models.
Why this role matters
Singapore has become one of Asia’s main hubs for AI research outside China, and industry labs there that publish openly are few. For a researcher with a strong conference record who wants their work to reach products quickly, this role offers both a publishing culture and direct access to enterprise customers, without relocating to the United States.
What Salesforce is looking for
- A PhD or master’s degree in computer science, AI, machine learning or a related field
- Publications at leading AI venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ECCV or ICCV
- Programming in Python or C/C++, and experience with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow
- A record of independent research turned into working systems, delivered at scale
Nice to have
- Full-time industry experience in deep-learning research or products
- Experience training large language models
- Mentoring other researchers
- Strong programming shown through competitive programming (such as ICPC) or open source
- Thoughtfulness about the impacts and ethics of AI
Pay and location
Salesforce does not state a salary for this Singapore role. The posting says Salesforce uses AI tools to help recruiters assess applications, with humans making the hiring decisions, and asks candidates to apply for no more than three roles in 12 months.
How to apply
Apply through the official Salesforce job posting. Salesforce’s posting does not give a closing date, so the role is open until filled; ResearchJobs.in will re-check this listing on 17 October 2026. Check the posting for location and work-authorisation details before you apply.
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Hiring institution: Salesforce
Official advertisement: salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com
How to prepare for this application
- Lead with two papers: pick the two publications closest to enterprise agents or LLMs and prepare a five-minute story for each: problem, idea, result, what you would do next.
- Think in products: the posting stresses customer validation, so prepare one example of a research idea you would test with a business user within a month.
- Agents and evaluation: revise how you would measure whether an LLM agent completes multi-step business tasks reliably.
- Know the lab's work: read the BLIP, CodeGen and Moirai papers so you can place your research next to theirs.
- Be selective: Salesforce asks applicants to limit themselves to three roles a year, so choose the best fit.
About Salesforce AI Research
Salesforce is a US software company, headquartered in San Francisco, best known for its customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Salesforce AI Research is its research division, with teams in Palo Alto and Singapore among other locations. It publishes at major machine-learning, NLP and computer-vision conferences and has released open models and libraries including BLIP, CodeGen and Moirai.
