Software Engineer, Agent Architecture

Sierra AI • San Francisco, CA

37d • Onsite

About The Position

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, London, and Singapore. 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. Sierra's engineering team has ~40 mostly senior engineers, including Mihai, Belinda, Arya, and Wei. We work in small, autonomous teams oriented around customer problems. Here are some examples of what you'll work on: Agentic Loop: What primitives do we need to build agents that are steerable and verifiable, but also conversational and empathetic? How do we future-proof this as LLMs evolve? Retrieval: How do we ground answers in a customer's knowledge base? How do we use retrieved context conversationally, handling cases where the answer is unclear or needs clarification from the user? Evals: How do we measure an agent's quality? How do empower our customers to improve agent quality?

Requirements

• A passion for being on the frontier of AI products.
• Motivation and high-agency to drive outcomes - we have a high-autonomy culture and each team member has lots of agency to overcome obstacles and achieve customer impact.
• Alignment to our company values throughout your work, notably finding a balance between Craftsmanship, Customer Obsession, and Competitive Intensity.
• 4+ years hands-on experience building production products and systems.
• Experience and comfort to build and ship full-stack solutions.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building AI-powered products.
• A sharp eye for design.
• Experience with Go and Typescript.
• Experience building developer tooling, programming languages, or databases.
• Leadership experience on technical projects or teams.

Benefits

• Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension) with Sierra match
• Parental Leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary Benefit Stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees