Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027)

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12 days ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver performant, reliable, intuitive AI agents for production use.
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.
  • Build, tune, and evolve AI agents across enterprise customer use cases.
  • Work directly with enterprise and startup customers to understand challenges and develop solutions.
  • Prototype tools and features and help shape Sierra’s core AI agent platform.
  • Collaborate with research, product, and platform teams on agent architectures, self-service capabilities, and generative agent development.
  • 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 and tinkerer mindset with high agency and the ability to overcome obstacles and ship.
  • 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 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 experience interfacing with customers or 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.
  • Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
  • Lunch, snacks, and coffee.
  • Discretionary benefit stipend.
  • Free alphorn lessons.
  • Eligible full-time employees may participate in equity plans subject to applicable policies.
  • Primarily in-person work based in San Francisco, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
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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