Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent - Financial Services

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2 months ago
Atlanta, GA, USA +2 moreSenior

Base Salary

$180k - $390k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver highly performant, reliable, intuitive, scalable AI agents running in production.
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.
  • Build, tune, and evolve AI agents and define Agent Development Life Cycle best practices.
  • Work directly with enterprise leaders and startups to understand business challenges and build AI agent solutions.
  • Embed AI agents across customer business stacks to drive innovation and efficiency.
  • Surface customer needs, prototype tools and features, and collaborate with research, product, and platform teams to evolve Sierra’s core platform.
  • Develop industry-specific AI agent frameworks and explore new agent architectures and self-service capabilities.
  • Experiment with voice models and integrate them at enterprise scale.

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 the ability to creatively overcome obstacles and ship.
  • Comfort working directly with customers to understand needs and solve real-world problems.
  • Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Genuine interest in financial services and improving end-customer experiences.
  • Experience in financial technology, financial institution implementations, work inside financial institutions, or familiarity with financial services security and compliance requirements is a strong plus.
  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production is preferred.
  • Founder or founding engineer experience is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI agent tools, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering is preferred.
  • Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go is preferred.
  • Previous customer-facing roles or technical project leadership with external stakeholders is preferred.

Benefits

  • Flexible unlimited paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • Discretionary benefit stipend
  • Free alphorn lessons
  • Full-time employee benefits may vary by region; the company is primarily in-person and based in San Francisco, with offices in multiple global locations
Sierra

About Sierra

201-500 employees

Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.