Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)Posted today$220K–$405K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineers who collaborate to build harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences.

What you'll do

  • 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 and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.

  • Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.

  • Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data: scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.

  • Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and: maintenance across the broader team.

What they're looking for

  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Significant experience in at least one of the following areas: Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
  • Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
  • Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
  • Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
  • Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
  • A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.