Sierra Ventures
Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking)
San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
TypeScriptGoReactLLMsRAGAgentic AISalesforceAR/VRResearchCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/.
- Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI.
- Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle https://sierra.ai/blog/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.
- 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.
- 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. See some examples in our financial services blog https://sierra.ai/blog/five-ways-to-use-ai-agents-financial-services!
- Facilitate design partnerships for new product initiatives, such as new agent architectures, self-service capabilities, and generative agent development
- Design and deliver production-grade AI agents https://sierra.ai/blog/meet-the-ai-agent-engineer: 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.
Skills
- Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go
- Language fluency - professional fluency in both Brazilian Portuguese and English
- 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 - you find creative ways to overcome obstacles and ship
- Excellent communication skills - clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production
- Have been a founder or founding engineer - you know what it means to balance craft, ownership, and speed
Compensation
- These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
Benefits
- We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
- 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
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, 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.
- These aren't prototypes-they are powerful, scalable systems running in production environments across industries like finance, healthcare, and commerce.
Company info
- 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, Tokyo, 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. 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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. 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.
- 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, Tokyo, 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.
- These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
- 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.
- 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.
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