Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027)

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6 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAEntry Level

Base Salary

$150k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver performant, reliable, intuitive AI agents for production use.
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.
  • Work directly with enterprise and startup customers to understand needs and build scalable solutions.
  • Prototype tools and features and collaborate with research, product, and platform teams to evolve Sierra’s AI agent platform.
  • Develop agent frameworks, self-service capabilities, new agent architectures, and integrations with voice models.

Requirements

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

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 and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
  • Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided.
  • Discretionary benefit stipend.
  • Free alphorn lessons.
  • Full-time employee benefits and equity-plan eligibility may vary by region.
  • Primarily in-person work based in San Francisco, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Sierra

About Sierra

201-500 employees

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

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