Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 21h ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team collaborates to build harnesses and AI systems powering delightful agentic experiences, including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and our Agent API. Our vision is to empower users with agents that faithfully actualize their intent through open-ended interactions with the world. As an engineer on our Agents team, you will 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, working across applied research and engineering to solve open problems in AI.
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses connecting models with environments and tools for economically valuable work.
- Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing AI agents product.
- Develop and leverage AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance capability frontiers and scale them.
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar in AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate core Perplexity 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 (TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust are bonuses).
- Significant experience in context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models.
- Significant experience in post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models).
- Significant experience in browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.).
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team and taking ownership.
- Passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.