Member of Technical Staff AI Software Engineer Agents

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will engineer agent harnesses that connect AI models with tools and environments. You will develop AI capabilities, infrastructure, and browser technologies; improve agent performance and user experience; and contribute to reliability, evaluation, testing, and maintenance.

Requirements

  • AI product stack
  • Python
  • Experience in context engineering and tool interfaces, post-training and reinforcement learning, or browser technologies
  • Product development
  • AI evaluation
  • Testing

Responsibilities

  • Engineer agent harnesses that connect models with environments and tools
  • Drive AI capabilities across product layers
  • Develop AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies
  • Scale agent capabilities for a growing user base
  • Maintain high standards for agent performance and user experience
  • Collaborate to integrate core functionality into agentic products
  • Contribute to reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness account
  • Commuter account
  • Dependent care account
Member of Technical Staff AI Software Engineer Agents at Perplexity | JobStash