Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
Perplexity20 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses connecting AI models with environments and tools for economically valuable user work.
- Develop AI capabilities, infrastructure, and browser technologies for agentic products at scale.
- Design and improve AI agents, action and decision models, permissions, classifiers, and environment interactions.
- Maintain high standards for AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists to integrate core functionality into agentic products.
- Contribute to reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Significant experience in at least one of context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, post-training and reinforcement learning, or browser technologies.
- TypeScript, Go, and Rust experience is preferred.
- Strong product intuition and commitment to excellent user experience.
- Ability to work in a small, fast-moving team, dive into problems, and take ownership.
- Passion for shipping products that surprise and delight users.
Tech Stack
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.