Salesforce told officials in Washington and California it will cut 133 roles from 5 October, according to state filings. A Washington notice covers 59 jobs at its Bellevue and Seattle offices, with the other 74 at its San Francisco headquarters.
For the enterprise-software giant, it is the third such round this year.
The Washington filing is precise and unglamorous. The 59 terminations are permanent, effective 5 October, and, it stresses, do not stem from relocation or contracting out. The worksites stay open. The roles listed lean heavily on engineering: software and technical-support engineers, an SVP of software engineering, a product director, and a VP of sustainability.
Nobody in the filing mentions AI
What the paperwork does not mention is AI. That link comes from the top. Chief executive Marc Benioff has spent the past year crediting AI tools for efficiency gains, and Salesforce is pushing Agentforce, its AI-agent product, which passed $1bn in annualised revenue in May. This is not new. Last September it cut 93 Washington jobs while Benioff made the same case.
