Perplexity AI
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team.
- Our vision is to empower our users with 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.
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.
- Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with the environments and tools required to perform economically valuable work for users.
- 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.
Skills
- Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
- Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;
- and much, much more.
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