Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

We are seeking energetic engineers to join the Agents team at Perplexity. You will work across applied research and engineering to solve open problems in AI, designing AI agents that navigate the digital world. This role involves developing cutting-edge AI models and infrastructure, ensuring high quality in agent performance and user experience.

• 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.
• Ensure a high craft and quality bar in both AI agent performance and user experience.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists to integrate core Perplexity functionality into agentic products.
• Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance.

• 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: 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.).