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How Sierra hires

Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
95 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
30%
Reposted roles
0%

Sierra scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 66 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 30% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 95 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Sierra is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor, the former co-chief executive of Salesforce and chairman of OpenAI, together with a former Google engineering leader. It builds conversational agents that handle customer service interactions end to end for large consumer businesses, resolving issues by acting on the company's own systems rather than only answering questions, and it charges per resolved outcome rather than per seat. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held at a multi-billion dollar valuation, it works with retailers, telecommunications operators, financial services firms and healthcare providers.

News

News TopSpeed 25 days ago
2027 GMC Sierra 1500 Interior And Exterior Picture Gallery
The redesigned 2027 GMC Sierra 1500 starts at $51,295 and brings new V8s, a bolder look, and a tech-packed cabin. Here's everything you need to know.
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Blog 25 days ago
Your agent, laid bare
For decades, enterprise software was a black box - hard for companies to understand, implement, adapt, and integrate, or even replace. With Sierra, nothing is hidden. It's easy to build an agent, understand the actions it takes, integrate it with existing
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Blog 30 days ago
Sierra achieves AIUC-1 certification
Sierra is now AIUC-1 certified, following an independent audit by Schellman and extensive testing by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC).
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News colino.net 1 month ago
Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II
A few words and thoughts about the upcoming support for quite a few Sierra cameras (Sanyo VPC-G1, Epson PhotoPC, ...) on Quicktake for Apple II.
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Blog 1 month ago
Next gen multimodal agents: an interface that morphs with the conversation
Sierra's multimodal agents bring voice, text, and visuals into the same conversation, so customers get the best of each medium without having to pick just one.
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News Crypto Briefing 1 month ago
Figure partners with Sierra to deploy AI agents for loan recovery
Figure Technology Solutions partners with Sierra.ai to deploy AI agents that recover abandoned HELOC applications and boost funded loan
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Blog 1 month ago
Hyper-𝜏-bench: Evaluating agents that build agents
Today we're open-sourcing hyper-𝜏-bench, a new long horizon agent evaluation that measures how well models can not only act as an agent, but construct one.
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Blog 1 month ago
AI for call centers: an operating and rollout guide
Use a lifecycle map and go/no-go checklist to plan routing, workforce, technology controls, failover, and expansion for AI in the call center.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sierra over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
91
Postings analysed
211
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript29%
Go3%
SQL3%
Python2%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenAI Agents SDK2%
React.js2%
Apache ECharts<1%
D3.js<1%
Databases
Snowflake1%
PostgreSQL<1%
Trino<1%
BigQuery<1%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI99%
AWS7%
Datadog3%
Figma3%
AI & ML
LLM25%
Claude1%
ChatGPT1%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$315k
Typical range
$100k – $470k
Open positions
125
97 Jobs
Junior 5.2%
Middle 15.5%
Senior 41.2%
Staff 12.4%
Architect 25.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $188k $100k – $390k
Middle 15 $390k $140k – $390k
Senior 40 $270k $191k – $416k
Staff 12 $370k $250k – $470k
Architect 25 $315k $256k – $380k
Highest paying role Enterprise Sales Leader $470k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Sierra By role, level and city, against the market · 125 jobs with pay

Products

Agent Evaluation
Tooling that scores agent behaviour against defined expectations before and after deployment. Without it there is no way to change a production agent with any confidence about the effect, which is the main reason enterprises hesitate to hand over customer conversations.
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Voice Agents
Telephone agents handling spoken customer interactions with low enough latency to feel natural. Voice is where most customer service volume still sits, and it is considerably harder to get right than chat.
sierra.ai
Agent OS
The development environment in which agents are configured, tested and monitored. It is what lets a customer's own team adjust behaviour without going back to the vendor for every change, which is the difference between a product and a consulting engagement.
sierra.ai
AI Agents
Conversational agents that resolve customer service issues by taking action in the company's own systems. Charging per resolved outcome rather than per seat aligns the vendor's revenue with whether the agent actually works.
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People

Bret Taylor
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Bret Taylor co-founded the company in 2023 after serving as co-chief executive of Salesforce and creating Google Maps earlier in his career. He also chairs the board of OpenAI.
Clay Bavor
Co-founder
Clay Bavor co-founded the company after leading virtual reality and Labs projects at Google for many years. He runs the product and engineering organisation.
Raymond Torres
Executive Officer, Director
Edward O'Connor
Executive Officer
Todd Schroeder
Executive Officer
Doug Hepper
Director
Michael Stock
Director
Denis Lichter
Director
Stephen Soderling
Director
Shane Slominski
Director
NA Sierra Holding Company LLC
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
143
20 opened / 56 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
73 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
31% ▼
Backend
22% ▲
HR
8% ▲
Solutions
8%
Product
6% ▼
Marketing
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+9 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added vLLM to stack Oct 2026
Added Speculative Decoding to stack Oct 2026
Added SGLang to stack Oct 2026
Added SFT to stack Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack Oct 2026
Added Post-training to stack Oct 2026
New location: Washington Oct 2026
New location: South Korea Sep 2026
Added Twilio to stack Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added ServiceNow to stack Sep 2026
Added Databricks to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
9
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Sierra
85 open roles 86 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 16% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $325k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Product
San Francisco
seen since Jan 2024 company site, job postings
New York United States
Support & operations
48 open roles 46 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 31% remote 500-1000 est. staff $344k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Product
seen since Jan 2024 job postings
Atlanta United States
Sales office
28 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 54% remote 200-500 est. staff $343k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions, Backend
seen since Jan 2024
London United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
25 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 28% engineering 200-500 est. staff $349k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, Sales
seen since Feb 2025 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Engineering / R&D
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $289k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Toronto Canada
Sales office
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50% remote 50-200 est. staff $305k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Tokyo Japan
Corporate office
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR, Marketing
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff $286k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, HR, Sales
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Washington United States
Sales office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 25% remote 10-50 est. staff $316k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Solutions
seen since Sep 2026
Munich Germany
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 33% engineering 33% remote 10-50 est. staff $269k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
opened 2026 seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Madrid Spain
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $232k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Paris France
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $319k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales
seen since Dec 2025 job postings

Jobs

$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Toronto
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
≈ $228k – $500k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
OpenAI
SFT
Post-training
Machine Learning
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$230k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
vLLM
AI Agents
SGLang
OpenAI
Post-training
Speculative Decoding
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$156k – $266k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
AI Agents
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$230k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Atlanta
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Atlanta
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
≈ $213k – $450k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Atlanta • Toronto
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Washington
AI Agents
OpenAI
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Atlanta
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply
$180k – $390k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • New York • San Francisco
TypeScript
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Management
Google Workspace
Google Maps
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$350M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $350M $10B Details