SalesforceEnterprise Application Engineer (Enterprise Security - Security AI)
Salesforce is hiring an Enterprise Application Engineer (Enterprise Security - Security AI) in San Francisco, United States. It pays $149k-$260k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Salesforce.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions RAG, AI agents and application security among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Salesforce has 1,500+ other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Perform security assessments, threat modeling, and penetration testing specifically for enterprise AI tooling and LLM agent systems.
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.
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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.
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The Experience
Salesforce Enterprise Security is hiring a Enterprise Application Security Engineer, for our Secure AI team. In this role, you will partner with business stakeholders and technology partners to assess and maintain the security of AI tooling, ensuring they meet or exceed Salesforce security requirements when deploying AI at scale. You will have the opportunity to identify emerging threats, design new processes that balance security and business agility, and share your knowledge through internal events, conferences, and research.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Conduct in-depth security assessments of emerging AI technologies — including architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests — while providing guidance on remediation and feature enhancements
- Threat model common attacker methods to develop mitigation techniques that balance security requirements with functional needs
- Collaborate with engineering teams and business partners to drive solutions through a secure development lifecycle, and define technical security standards and guidelines
- Research new technologies, emerging threats, and vulnerabilities to support strategic planning and process improvements
- Build tools to enable secure use of AI at scale
You're Our Person If...
- 5+ years of experience in a security engineering role including Application Security and Pentesting experience
- Develop automated processes and support improvement of tooling to identify and solve problems at scale
- Experience with large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems — building, evaluating, or securing them
- Experience with AI security attack surfaces including prompt injection, data exfiltration, privilege escalation in agents, and model supply chain risks
- Understanding of RAG architectures, classifier models, and how retrieval and generation pipelines work
- Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and critical-thinking skills
- A related technical degree required
Even Better If...
- Familiarity with standard security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25, and MITRE ATT&CK
- Relevant BA/BS degree and/or certifications such as CRISC, CISSP, CCIE, CISM, CISA, or CCSK
- Experience defining and communicating security remediation tasks to project and data owners
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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Posting Statement
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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.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.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 $148,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.How we rate this
Enterprise Application Engineer (Enterprise Security - Security AI) at Salesforce rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.
Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where application security was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where penetration testing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where threat modeling was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Application Security, Penetration Testing, and Threat Modeling. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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