Software Engineer, Product
Tech Stack
About the Role
ABOUT US
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, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Japan, and Sydney.
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.
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. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Agent Architecture: 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?
- Voice: How do we make our chat agents 'just work' over the phone? How do we deliver lifelike conversations at low latency?
- Simulation & Benchmarking: How can we craft a simulation platform to test AI agents against every real-world scenario imaginable?
- Content Management: How do we create intuitive, no-code tools that allow anyone to guide and test AI agents?
- Agent Development Lifecycle: How do we adapt traditional software development methodologies to accommodate AI agents' non-deterministic behavior, natural language interactions, and reliance on large language models?
- Generative Agent Development: How do we accelerate agent creation? Can we build self-improving systems based on real-world interactions, customer-driven feedback, and self-play?
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- 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.
EVEN BETTER...
- 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.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
