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Research Engineer
| Company | Sierra |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $135000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with applied machine learning
- Deep understanding of model architectures, training pipelines, and evaluation methodologies
- Ability to work cross-functionally with researchers, product engineers, and product managers
- Self-motivated, proactive, and resourceful
- Demonstrated ability to deploy, optimize, and manage high-scale, robust data pipelines and production ML systems
- Solid software engineering skills
- Experience with Python, Go and Typescript
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship novel agent architectures
- Build self-improving agents using real-world interactions and customer-driven feedback
- Work with the latest advances in AI voice transcription, synthesis, and multimodal models
- Push the simulation platform to test AI agents against real-world scenarios
- Implement and maintain analytics, experiments, and evaluation frameworks to track model quality
- Stay abreast of the latest in ML research and tooling
- Propose and prototype innovative ideas to push Sierra’s product capabilities forward
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience reframing problems for deep learning and machine learning
- Expertise working with LLMs, transformer-based architectures, or other generative AI models
- Background in conversational AI and voice-based interfaces
- Leadership experience on technical projects or teams
