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Upgrade

Offers fixed-rate loans, cards, BNPL

AI Experience Developer

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in CanadaRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have 3–5 years of software development experience, or equivalent experience in technical solutions, conversational AI, or technical product management.
  • Have practical knowledge of LLM agent behavior, including instructions, tool calls, knowledge retrieval, and their failure modes.
  • Have experience designing evaluations for nondeterministic systems, including test sets, simulations, LLM-as-judge, and regression thresholds.
  • Be technically capable of reading API specifications, collaborating with backend developers on REST and GraphQL integrations, and reasoning about authorization and permission scopes.
  • Understand operational procedures, review transcripts, attend to tone, and measure success by resolving customer problems.
  • Have experience with production ownership, including deployments, monitoring, log analysis, and incident response.
  • Write clearly and work with nontechnical stakeholders in operations, compliance, and legal.
  • English is required for interaction with staff at Upgrade offices worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop Sierra Agent Studio journeys for chat, voice, and email, from discovery with operations through production deployment.
  • Analyze transcripts, recordings, and analytics weekly; identify failed or transferred conversations; and deploy fixes to journey logic, instructions, and the knowledge base.
  • Map problematic scenarios such as declined payments, identity mismatches, delinquent accounts, and unsupported requests, ensuring each ends with an accurate answer or a smooth transfer.
  • Own autonomous-resolution and customer-satisfaction targets for each journey, conduct phased rollouts from 1% to 100%, and prioritize work with the greatest impact on those metrics.
  • Collaborate with product groups to scope new journeys, keep journeys current as products evolve, and define the APIs needed by the agent.
  • Apply multi-factor authentication and enhanced verification, exact compliance language, and safeguards against hallucinations and policy-noncompliant answers.
  • Design transfers to human agents in Genesys with accurate summaries and authentication context.
  • Create simulation and regression test suites so every journey change is deployed with evidence that existing behavior is not degraded.
  • Track latency, errors, and drop-offs in SumoLogic and Grafana, and own alerts.
  • Optimize voice latency, transition phrases, interruptions, personality, and tone.
  • Serve as the technical lead for Upgrade's relationship with Sierra, escalate platform issues, and guide roadmap requests.
  • Own the full lifecycle of customer journeys with Upgrade's AI agent across chat, phone, and email, including creation, optimization, edge-case handling, and increasing autonomous resolution.
  • Manage an assigned portfolio of journeys across personal loans, cards, buy now, pay later, home equity lines of credit, and deposits, and contribute to standards for designing, testing, and deploying AI experiences.

Desired Qualifications

  • Have hands-on experience with Sierra Agent Studio or a comparable no-code agent platform such as Decagon, Ada, Kore.ai, Google CCAI, or Amazon Lex/Connect.
  • Have voice AI experience, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, latency optimization, and barge-in handling.
  • Know contact-center systems such as Genesys and how to design transfers to human agents.
  • Have experience in fintech or another regulated industry, including UDAAP, FDCPA, TCPA, PCI, or SOC 2.
  • Have experience in conversational design or UX writing.

About the Company

Upgrade

Offers fixed-rate loans, cards, BNPL

Upgrade is a US consumer fintech that provides affordable and responsible credit and everyday banking services to mainstream consumers. Its products include fixed-rate personal loans, the Upgrade Card and other cash-back cards, Rewards Checking with a debit card, auto and home-improvement financing, and Flex Pay buy now, pay later at merchant checkouts. Customers fund these products through interest, fees, and card interchange, with backing from partner banks and asset-backed securitizations, and Upgrade is expanding funding by applying to form Upgrade Bank. Unlike apps that only offer one product, Upgrade combines lending, banking, and education tools in one platform to help people manage debt and build credit, aiming to widen access to affordable credit and everyday banking.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series G
Total funding
$712M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2016

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