Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad) (San Francisco)

Sierra Ai Agent Engineer

At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, and London.

We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture : Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google's AR / VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

What You'll Do

Design and deliver production-grade AI agents : You'll build and ship highly performant, reliable, and intuitive AI agents that are central, mission-critical and drive revenue directly to Sierra's growth. These aren't prototypesthey are powerful, scalable systems running in production environments across industries like finance, healthcare, and commerce.

Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC) : You'll have complete ownership and autonomy from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration. You'll be responsible for building, tuning, and evolving AI agents in production environments, defining the standard for ADLC best practices along the way.

Partner with large enterprises and cutting-edge startups : You'll work directly with leaders at some of the world's largest enterprises to understand their most pressing business challenges, and build AI agents that transform how they operate at scale. You'll also partner with the most cutting-edge startups in Silicon Valley, embedding AI agents across their entire business stack to drive innovation and efficiency.

Build the future of the platform : Your direct work with customers will guide the evolution of Sierra's core platform. You'll surface unmet needs, prototype new tools and features, and collaborate with research, product, and platform to shape the future of AI agent development and Sierra's product.

Example Projects

These are some examples of projects that engineers on our team have worked on recently :

• Design and build AI agents for large telecommunications and media companies that consistently outperform human agents in managing subscription churn
• Develop and refine AI agents capable of navigating complex customer interactions, like troubleshooting a broken device and personalizing product recommendations
• Create generalizable AI agent frameworks tailored for industry-specific use cases
• Facilitate design partnerships for new product initiatives, such as new agent architectures, self-service capabilities, and generative agent development
• Experiment with the latest voice models and figure out how to integrate them at scale to enterprise-grade customers

What You'll Bring

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Our Values

What We Offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees :

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Be You, With Us

We're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.