About the Role
Sierra is building a platform to help businesses create better, more human customer experiences using AI. The Travel, Transportation and Hospitality (TTH) team supports major players in the travel industry, partnering with them to shape the platform and reinvent hospitality. This role involves designing and delivering production-grade AI agents that directly drive revenue and improve customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver production-grade AI agents that are central, mission-critical, and drive revenue.
- Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC) from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.
- Build, tune, and evolve AI agents in production environments.
- Define the standard for ADLC best practices.
- Partner with leaders at large enterprises to understand business challenges and build transformative AI agents.
- Partner with cutting-edge startups to embed AI agents across their business stack.
- Surface unmet needs based on customer interactions.
- Prototype new tools and features.
- Collaborate with research, product, and platform teams to shape the future of AI agent development and Sierra's product.
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.
- 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.
- Excitement in the travel space and a genuine care for helping improve the guest experience.
Skills
- AI agents
- Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC)
- Multimodal experiences
- Booking experiences
- Google Maps APIs
- Recommendation engines
- Payment collection
- Legacy reservations systems modernization
- Platform extensibility
- MCP integrations
- React
- TypeScript
- Go
- AI/LLM systems
- eval frameworks
- agent tooling
- RAG pipelines
- prompt engineering
Location
- San Francisco
- Atlanta
- New York
- London
- Paris
- Madrid
- Munich
- Singapore
- Tokyo
- Sydney
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Founding engineer experience is a plus
Benefits
- 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
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
- Equity plans
About the Company
- Sierra is creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
- The company is guided by values: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family.
- Co-founders are Bret Taylor (former co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook, co-creator of Google Maps) and Clay Bavor (18 years at Google, led Google Labs, AR/VR, Google Lens, Google Workspace product and design).
Equal Opportunity
- 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 race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
