Lead ML Engineer - Feature Store and Integration

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About Salesforce

We’re 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. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Lead ML Feature Store Engineer

About Salesforce 

We’re 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. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.  

Our Team 

At Salesforce, our Data Science and Machine Learning (DS/ML) team, part of the Data and Analytics (DnA) organization, is dedicated to structuring customer data and developing data science products that drive customer success and sales. We collaborate across various departments, including executives, success managers, sales, renewal managers, and product managers. Our mission is to uncover growth opportunities, analyze data, and provide actionable insights to guide our business decisions.

This Role 

The Senior/Lead ML Engineer is a crucial role within our data strategy, directly impacting vital internal processes and providing key insights for global decision-making. As a pivotal member, you will oversee the feature store development and operations, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and adaptability to support various machine learning models and data products effectively. Your responsibilities extend to collaborating closely with data scientists, ML platform engineers, and business experts to architect entity models and feature pipelines within the feature store environment, fostering self-service data platforms and facilitating efficient model deployment across the organization.

We are actively seeking a highly motivated feature store engineer who possesses a deep passion for building scalable solutions and leveraging state-of-the-art technologies within the feature store platform landscape. Your focus will be on enhancing the feature store's capabilities, working collaboratively with other upstream data owners to establish robust data standards, and ensuring comprehensive data governance throughout the organization. Your contributions will directly impact productivity levels, streamline decision-making processes, and fuel rapid growth and innovation within our machine learning initiatives, driving tangible business outcomes.

The ideal candidate will leverage their technical expertise in data architecture, entity modeling, and feature engineering to drive continuous improvements within the feature store framework. You will adeptly navigate evolving requirements, demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills for seamless collaboration with cross-functional teams, and exhibit a proactive problem-solving approach to tackle intricate challenges effectively. In short, we look for people who take pride in the craft and want to be part of creating and defining the team's operating model and contribution to the company. They will be a self-starter, detail and quality oriented, and passionate about having a huge impact at Salesforce. If you are a self-driven individual with a meticulous eye for detail and a strong passion for driving impactful work in machine learning and data engineering domains, we invite you to apply and become a valued member of our dynamic team. Help recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class customer data strategy team and participate in recruitment as we scale the wider Data organization within Salesforce.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating closely with business leaders, data analysts, and domain experts to transform business requirements into ML-based feature store entity models that are intuitive and adaptable across various teams.

• Facilitating seamless collaboration between business and technical