About us

Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.

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 a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Sierra was co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor who first met while working together at Google over 20 years ago. Bret currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Open AI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce and CTO of Facebook. Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.

As a Software Engineer Intern, Agent, you'll work directly on production AI agents for Sierra's customers. You'll gain hands-on experience contributing to the design and development of AI agents, shipping features, and learning from real-world use cases at scale. If you're hungry to shape and learn from the most important technological wave in history, come build at Sierra.

What you'll bring

Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field

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

Even better

Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production

Familiarity with tools that power today's AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go

Intern qualifications

The intern program is open to students graduating December 2027 - June 2028

Note: The full benefits listed below are available only to full-time employees. Interns are eligible for a monthly stipend for health insurance, daily lunch, and, of course, free alphorn lessons.

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 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.

What we offer

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