Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Product intuition","Ownership","Collaboration","Quality focus","Shipping mindset"]

Build agent harnesses and agentic products that connect frontier AI models to real-world environments, tools, and experiences. Work across backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineering to design agent navigation, action/decision models for multimodal states, and secure-by-design agent capabilities. Ensure high craft through AI evaluation, testing, reliability, and code quality while collaborating with product and research teams to scale capabilities for millions of users.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
3 days ago

Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

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Job Summary

Build agent harnesses and agentic products that connect frontier AI models to real-world environments, tools, and experiences. Work across backend, full-stack, and AI/ML engineering to design agent navigation, action/decision models for multimodal states, and secure-by-design agent capabilities. Ensure high craft through AI evaluation, testing, reliability, and code quality while collaborating with product and research teams to scale capabilities for millions of users.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with environments and tools needed for economically valuable user work.
  • •Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across layers of a rapidly growing AI agents product.
  • •Develop and leverage AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance capabilities and scale for a large user base.
  • •Maintain a high craft and quality bar for both AI performance and user experience.
  • •Collaborate across engineering, design, product management, and data science to integrate core functionality into agentic products and vice-versa.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • •Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • •Experience in one or more areas: context engineering and tool interfaces, post-training and reinforcement learning for multimodal models, or browser technologies (e.g., CDP, Playwright, extension development).
  • •Strong product intuition and a taste for user experience excellence.
  • •Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving team with ownership and a drive to ship delightful products.
Experience:AI agents
Skills:Product intuitionOwnershipCollaborationQuality focusShipping mindset
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptGoRustCDPPlaywright

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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