Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
Perplexityabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users.
- Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
- Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier.
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar in both AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists to integrate core functionality into agentic products.
- Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python, with bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust.
- Significant experience in context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models.
- Experience in post-training and reinforcement learning, particularly for multimodal models.
- Familiarity with browser technologies such as CDP, Playwright, and extension development.
- Strong product intuition and a taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team and willing to take ownership.
- A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.