About this 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, 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.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- 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.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- 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
- Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
- Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on d