Salesforce

AI Research Intern

USA internshipsAI/ML/DataNewPosted 2 days ago

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Type: USA internships

About this role

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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.

The Experience

Salesforce AI Research is a global leader in Enterprise AI, driving innovations that advance the state of AI while powering enterprise products at worldwide scale.

Our research has helped shape multiple generations of modern AI: we helped pioneer prompt engineering through DecaNLP; introduced BLIP, a foundational breakthrough in multimodal AI; trained state-of-the-art large language models including CodeGen; and pioneered foundation models for time series with Moirai. Today, we continue to advance the frontier of enterprise AI through innovations in AI simulation environments like eVerse, our simulation and agent-training environment; the Atlas Reasoning Engine, which powers Agentforce reasoning capabilities; and other AI systems that are redefining how enterprises reason, plan, and act.

What makes our team unique is our ability to take ideas from research to real-world impact at scale. We work closely with product teams and enterprise customers to translate cutting-edge research into production AI capabilities used by millions of users. We also continue to publish at the world's top AI conferences, open source influential research, and collaborate with leading academic institutions. Learn more at Salesforce AI Research.

We are looking for entrepreneurial Research Interns for Summer 2027 who want to help build the next generation of Enterprise AI. This is not a traditional research internship. You will work like a founder within Salesforce: exploring high-impact research directions, prototyping cutting-edge AI capabilities, and seeing how ideas are validated with customers and turned into production-ready solutions. You will have the freedom to propose and explore new ideas, alongside mentors and research scientists, with access to Salesforce's global customer and product ecosystem. We are looking for people who are comfortable with ambiguity, bring energy and focus to their work, and care as much about customer adoption as technical innovation. If you want the pace and ownership of a startup, combined with the reach and resources of Salesforce, this internship offers a unique opportunity to do research with global impact.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

Collaborate with research scientists and engineers on a project focused on real-world product impact, with the opportunity to publish your work at top-tier conferences.
Explore research directions with the potential to transform Enterprise AI.
Help turn promising ideas into zero-to-one AI product prototypes.
Build models, agents, and AI systems for real-world enterprise use.
Learn how research partners with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to bring solutions to market.

You're Our Person If...

You have a strong publication record at top AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP) and/or experience building AI research into real-world systems.
You have experience with Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or DeepSpeed.
You are motivated by real-world impact and care about seeing your research leave the lab and reach users at scale.
You bring expertise in one or more core focus areas:
Agentic AI and Reasoning: LLM-powered agents, reinforcement learning (RL), reasoning and planning, autonomous workflows, computer use agents, deep research agents, and coding agents.
Multimodal and Computer Vision: Vision-language models, video understanding, and multimodal AI agents.
Speech Intelligence: Voice intelligence, text-to-speech/automatic speech recognition, and low-latency audio processing.
Core Modeling and Post-Training: Pre-training and post-training techniques including RLHF and direct preference optimization, model distillation, evaluation, and time series modeling.
You can conduct research with guidance from mentors, and you are ready to grow toward independence and translate ideas into impactful systems.

Even Better If...

You are a PhD or MS candidate in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
You have experience building and scaling ML models for real-world applications.
You have strong programming skills (competitive programming, e.g., ACM-ICPC, or open source experience).
You are thoughtful about responsible AI, trust, and the real-world impact of the systems you build.
You are a fantastic problem solver, able to tackle challenges the world hasn't solved before.
You have excellent written and spoken communication skills.
You collaborate effectively with teammates.

Internship Details

This is a Summer 2027 internship with a minimum duration of 12 weeks.

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: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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 $49 - $68 per hour.

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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