At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and deliver production-grade AI agents, driving the Agent Development Life Cycle.
- Company: Sierra is an innovative company co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, focusing on AI-driven customer experiences.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible paid time off, medical benefits, and a discretionary benefit stipend.
- Other info: This role requires Italian language proficiency and offers opportunities to work with large enterprises.
- Why this job: Join a mission-critical team shaping the future of AI in diverse industries like finance and healthcare.
- Qualifications: Experience in building end-to-end production systems and strong problem-solving skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
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.
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.
- Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC): You'll have complete ownership and autonomy from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.
- 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.
- Build the future of the platform: Your direct work with customers will guide the evolution of Sierra's core platform.
Example projects:
- 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.
- Create generalizable AI agent frameworks tailored for industry‑specific use cases.
- Facilitate design partnerships for new product initiatives.
- Experiment with the latest voice models and figure out how to integrate them at scale.
What You’ll Bring:
- Experience building and scaling end‑to‑end production systems.
- Strong technical problem‑solving skills, especially in fast‑changing, ambiguous environments.
- A builder and tinkerer’s mindset with high agency.
- Comfort working directly with customers to understand their needs.
- Excellent communication skills—clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non‑technical audiences.
Even better…:
- Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production.
- Have been a founder or founding engineer.
- Familiarity with tools that power today's AI agents.
- Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go.
- Previous roles where you interfaced with customers or led technical projects with external stakeholders.
Our values:
- Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness.
- Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes.
- Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture.
- Intensity: We know we don’t have the luxury of patience.
- Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible.
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.
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee.
- Discretionary benefit stipend.
- Free alphorn lessons.
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 any legally protected class.
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Sierra, based in San Francisco, offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits. The team values diversity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds, fostering a culture of innovation and support.