Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
PerplexityConversational AI company
On-siteLead
Nvidia
NEA
Bessemer Venture Partners
Jeff Bezos
Databricks
Daniel Gross
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Develop and enhance AI agents for Perplexity's platform.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities 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.
- •Requirements 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.
Required skills
PythonTypeScriptGoRustTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnOpenAPIREST APIgRPCWebSocketsRabbitMQCelerySidekiqNotion
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonTypeScriptGoRustTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnOpenAPIREST APIgRPCWebSocketsRabbitMQCelerySidekiqNotionSlackAsanaLinearMonday.comAirtableExcelPowerPointGoogle AnalyticsGA4Looker StudioWorkdayGreenhouseLeverMarketo
