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Software Engineer, Intelligence

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sierra logoSierra · San Francisco, CA
$230K–$390K/yrFull-timeOn-site2mo ago
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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. 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 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. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Intelligence layer at Sierra. You'll work on systems that analyze millions of agent interactions and generate insights that improve agent performance and customer outcomes.
  • Turn conversations into insights. You'll build systems for analyzing, clustering, and exploring large-scale conversational data.
  • Enable evaluation and experimentation. You'll design systems that allow us and our customers to measure agent quality and run experiments.
  • Develop learning systems. You'll work on retrieval, ranking, personalization, and feedback loops that make agents more effective over time.

Requirements

  • A passion for being on the frontier of AI products.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems.
  • Experience working with data systems, analytics, or machine learning-driven products.
  • Motivation and high-agency to drive outcomes in a fast-moving environment.
  • 4+ years hands-on experience building production systems or data products.
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Even better
  • Experience with retrieval, ranking, or recommendation systems.
  • Experience building analytics or data exploration tools.
  • Experience working with large-scale data systems.
  • Experience building AI-powered products.
  • Our values
  • Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers' business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
  • Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn't right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.
  • Intensity: We know we don't have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn't, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.
  • Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other's personal and professional achievements.

Benefits

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:Flexible (unlimited) paid time offMedical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your familyLife insurance and disability benefitsRetirement plan dependent on country of employmentParental leaveFertility and family building benefits through CarrotLunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energizedDiscretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters mostFree alphorn lessonsBe you, with usDental insuranceVision insuranceFlexible scheduleEquity / stock options

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