Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent

Sierra
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9 months ago
Munich, GermanySenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver highly performant, reliable, intuitive, and scalable AI agents for production use
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration
  • Build, tune, and evolve AI agents in production environments
  • Partner directly with enterprise and startup leaders to understand business challenges and develop solutions
  • Develop generalizable agent frameworks for industry-specific use cases
  • Prototype new agent architectures, self-service capabilities, and generative agent features
  • Experiment with voice models and integrate them at enterprise scale
  • Surface customer needs and collaborate with research, product, and platform teams to evolve Sierra’s core platform

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
  • Comfort working directly with customers to understand needs and solve real-world problems
  • Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production is preferred
  • Founder or founding-engineer experience is preferred
  • Familiarity with AI agent evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering is preferred
  • Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go is preferred
  • Previous customer-facing experience or experience leading technical projects with external stakeholders is preferred

Benefits

  • Flexible unlimited paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their 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
  • Primarily in-person work, with offices in San Francisco and other international locations
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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