Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine)
$250k - $405k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 7h ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. As an engineer on our Agent Engine team, you'll bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You'll work across engineering and applied research to solve many open problems in AI.
Responsibilities
- Design frontier agent harnesses and systems for high-stakes, mission-critical work.
- Leverage action and decision models to accomplish user objectives based on complex multimodal states.
- Provide excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, and custom executors through sound system design and flexible abstractions.
- Develop permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods for secure-by-design agentic capabilities.
- Design optimal data representations and interaction modes between agents and their environments.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the AI systems stack.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Significant experience in harness engineering, agent skills and plugin architectures, model training and reinforcement learning, or browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.).
- Strong technical intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team with a bias toward ownership.
- Passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.