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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
Agentforce is Salesforce's next-generation AI platform, delivering autonomous agents that reason, take action, and communicate naturally across every customer touchpoint. Voice is the fastest-growing interaction surface—from contact-center automation and field-service assistants to real-time sales coaching and multilingual global deployments.
As Director of Agentforce Voice Models, you will own the full voice intelligence stack: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR / STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Speech (S2S) end-to-end pipelines, speaker diarization, prosody modeling, and the language-coverage roadmap that makes Agentforce sound natural in every market we serve. You will partner with product, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams to set the bar for transcription accuracy, latency, and voice expressiveness at enterprise scale.
At Salesforce, we believe AI agents will redefine how businesses and people work. Agentforce is at the center of that shift—and Voice is its most human interface. You will work at the intersection of frontier research and enterprise-grade reliability, with direct customer impact across 150,000+ organizations worldwide, with access to proprietary, enterprise-grade voice data, world-class compute, and a platform with distribution that no startup can match.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Define and own the multi-year roadmap for Agentforce voice capabilities, spanning ASR/STT, TTS, S2S, and real-time voice agents, including build vs. buy vs. partner decisions and setting accuracy, latency, and quality benchmarks (WER, MOS, RTF, DMOS).
- Lead ASR/STT, neural TTS, and low-latency Speech-to-Speech (S2S) pipeline development—covering streaming recognition, prosody and persona design, and full-duplex conversational AI integrated with agent action loops.
- Own speaker diarization, voice-biometric authentication, and the global language coverage and localization roadmap, including data governance and dialect/accent validation.
- Recruit and lead a world-class team of research engineers, applied scientists, and ML engineers (target team size: 20–30), partnering cross-functionally with Product, Legal, Privacy, and Trust & Safety on voice AI ethics and compliance (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR), and representing Agentforce Voice externally at conferences and standards bodies (W3C, IETF).
You're Our Person If...
- 10+ years in speech/audio machine learning, with 4+ years in a senior leadership role managing teams of 10 or more engineers or scientists.
- Deep hands-on expertise in at least two of: ASR (end-to-end or hybrid CTC/attention architectures), neural TTS (VITS, Voicebox, Matcha-TTS, or equivalent), or real-time speech processing pipelines.
- Proven track record of shipping production voice models at scale (millions of minutes per day) with measurable accuracy and latency improvements.
- Proficiency in Python; experience with PyTorch or JAX model training at scale; familiarity with cloud-based training infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Even Better If...
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Linguistics, or related field with a speech/audio focus, or equivalent industry experience.
- Familiarity with streaming inference, model quantization (INT8/INT4), and on-device deployment for low-latency voice.
- Background in telephony protocols (SIP, RTP, WebRTC) and enterprise contact-center platforms (Genesys, NICE, Avaya, Amazon Connect).
- Published research or patents in speech processing, audio ML, or a closely related field.
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.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 $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.