Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoFull-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningAgentic AIPlaywrightResearch
About the role
- Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team.
- Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users;
- Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;
Requirements
- Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
- 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.
- A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.
Benefits
- Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding;
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