Sierra

Software Engineer, Agent – New Grad

Sierra

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $185,000 per year

Job Level

Entry Level

Tech Stack

GoReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Design and deliver production-grade AI agents: build and ship highly performant, reliable, and intuitive AI agents that are central, mission-critical and drive revenue
  • Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC): ownership from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration; build, tune, and evolve AI agents in production
  • Partner with large enterprises and cutting-edge startups: work directly with leaders to understand business challenges and embed AI agents across customer stacks
  • Build the future of the platform: surface unmet needs, prototype new tools and features, and collaborate with research, product, and platform teams
  • Example projects: design agents to manage subscription churn for telecom/media; develop agents for complex customer interactions and personalized recommendations; create generalizable AI agent frameworks; facilitate design partnerships for new product initiatives; experiment with and integrate voice models at enterprise scale

Requirements

  • 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
  • Comfort working directly with customers to understand their needs and solve real-world problems
  • Excellent communication skills - clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production (preferred)
  • Have been a founder or founding engineer (preferred)
  • Familiarity with tools that power today's AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering (preferred)
  • Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go (preferred)
  • Previous roles where you interfaced with customers or led technical projects with external stakeholders (preferred)
  • Application requirements: Name, Email, Phone, Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub or personal website, Anticipated graduation date
  • Work authorization questions: Are you legally authorized to work in the United States? Will you require visa sponsorship to work in the United States?
  • Ability to work from San Francisco, CA (Sierra is primarily an in-person company)