Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agent Engine)

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer (our platform for generalized frontier intelligence), the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more.

Our vision is to build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. As an engineer on our Agents team, you'll 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. You'll work across applied research and engineering to solve many open problems in AI, including:

Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform mission-critical work for our users;

Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;

Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions;

Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;

Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;

and much, much more.

Qualifications

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.