Software Engineer, Agent at Sierra

Sierra creates a platform helping businesses build customer experiences enhanced by AI. The role focuses on designing and deploying production-grade AI agents across finance, healthcare, and commerce sectors.

What You'll Do

Production AI Agent Development: Build and ship highly performant, reliable, and intuitive AI agents driving direct revenue impact through scalable systems in production environments.

Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) Leadership: Own end-to-end agent evolution from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.

Enterprise Partnership: Collaborate with major enterprises and startups to address business challenges through AI agent solutions.

Platform Evolution: Surface customer needs to guide Sierra's core platform development through prototyping and feature collaboration.

Example Projects

Designing agents for telecom/media companies that outperform human agents in subscription churn management

Building agents for complex customer interactions including device troubleshooting and personalized recommendations

Creating industry-specific AI agent frameworks

Integrating latest voice models at enterprise scale

Required Qualifications

Experience building and scaling end-to-end production systems

Strong technical problem-solving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments

Builder and tinkerer's mindset with high agency

Direct customer engagement experience

Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

Production AI/LLM system experience

Founding or founding engineer background

Familiarity with eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

React, TypeScript, and/or Go experience

Customer-facing or external stakeholder project leadership

Benefits: Unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision, life/disability insurance, 401K match, parental leave, fertility benefits, discretionary stipends.