Steven Jones is a Director of AI Engineering with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling neural network training and inference systems across fleets, cloud, and edge devices. He has led AI infrastructure and tooling at Tesla and Salesforce, shipping distributed training, telemetry, labeling, and data pipelines that bridge R&D to production. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, he mentors teams while driving reliability in high-throughput AI clusters and real-time vehicle systems. His background spans software, algorithms, mapping, MEMS, and racing-inspired engineering, reflected in multiple patents and publications. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines research instincts with product-focused pragmatism, often tackling problems from firmware to cloud. A longtime maker and founder, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a history of building systems end-to-end—from embedded devices to large-scale AI data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) at University of California, Berkeley
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Steven Jones - Director, AI Engineering at Salesforce