Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Sep 13, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco
About the role
- Perplexity is seeking engineers for the Agents team to build harnesses and AI systems that power agentic experiences like Perplexity Computer and the Comet ecosystem.
- The role involves working across applied research and engineering to solve open problems in AI, including designing agents to navigate the digital world and training action and decision models.
Responsibilities
- Engineer agent harnesses that connect powerful models with environments and tools to perform work for users.
- Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of the product.
- Develop and leverage AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier.
- Ensure a high craft and quality bar in AI agent performance and user experience.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists to integrate core functionality.
- Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.
Requirements
- Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Significant experience in context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models, post-training and reinforcement learning, or browser technologies.
- Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
- Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team with a willingness to take ownership.
- Passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.
Preferred qualifications
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
- CDP
- Playwright
- Reinforcement Learning
- Multimodal Models
