Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent

Sierra
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over 1 year ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and continuously improve scalable production AI agents.
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle from initial pilot through deployment and ongoing iteration.
  • Partner directly with enterprise and startup customers to understand business challenges and build solutions.
  • Develop agent frameworks, self-service capabilities, voice-model integrations, and other AI agent platform features.
  • Use customer feedback to prototype tools and shape Sierra’s core platform with research, product, and platform teams.

Requirements

  • Experience building and scaling end-to-end production systems.
  • Strong technical problem-solving skills in fast-changing and ambiguous environments.
  • A builder’s mindset, high agency, and ability to ship creative solutions.
  • Comfort working directly with customers to understand needs and solve real-world problems.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Preferred: experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production.
  • Preferred: experience as a founder or founding engineer.
  • Preferred: familiarity with evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go.
  • Preferred: prior customer-facing experience or experience leading technical projects with external stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible unlimited paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits for employees and families.
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment.
  • Parental leave and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
  • Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided.
  • Discretionary benefit stipend.
  • Free alphorn lessons.
  • Full-time employees may participate in equity plans subject to applicable policies.
  • Primarily in-person work, with offices in San Francisco and other regions; benefits may vary by country.
Sierra

About Sierra

1,001-5,000 employees

Sierra builds an enterprise conversational AI platform that powers customer service and other customer-facing interactions for large organizations. The company sells SaaS and deployed solutions that integrate with enterprise systems and meet security and compliance requirements. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Sierra was co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, longtime leaders at Salesforce, Facebook, and Google.

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